Jon Stewart on Thursday shredded Donald Trump’s declare that the media reporting on his well being is “seditious, even perhaps treasonous” after an article in The New York Instances recommended that the president is displaying “indicators of fatigue.”
Stewart, in remarks on the newest episode of his “Weekly Present” podcast, joked that Trump is the “healthiest, most sturdy president” in U.S. historical past and stated he’s discovered “the thicker the ankle, the higher the stability.”
“For Donald Trump, the extent of fealty can by no means rise to a degree that’s passable for him. There is no such thing as a degree of ass-kissing you are able to do,” Stewart stated.
The Instances’ Katie Rogers and Dylan Freedman, of their reporting final month, wrote that Trump is working “shorter days” and it’s gotten more durable to mission a picture of “round the clock vitality, virility and bodily stamina.”
Trump’s obvious collection of mid-meeting naps, in addition to speak round his MRI, have fueled additional questions round his well being and cognitive health in current weeks.
The president took to his Fact Social platform earlier this week to rant in regards to the Instances’ reporting in a prolonged screed (once more), declaring that there’s “by no means been a President that has labored as laborious as me” earlier than including that his hours are the “longest” and his outcomes are “among the many greatest.”
On his podcast, Stewart stated that “all the pieces is seditious” to Trump that “falls beneath the extent of” Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem thanking Trump for holding “the hurricanes away” this 12 months at a current Cupboard assembly.
“He’s offended at Fox Information, which is actually like a 24-hour-a-day, ball-washing machine for Trump and is designed particularly to maintain him in energy,” he stated.
“So for him to say one thing is seditious or treasonous means nothing as a result of the bar of entry to Donald Trump is only about how deeply you’re proving your timeless loyalty to the king. Something under that, clearly, is seditious and none of us measure up, sadly.”
Stewart famous sarcastically that it’s “so laborious” to be a billionaire president.
“Cash corrupts and energy corrupts and to have all the cash and all the facility — it’s like if ‘Lord of the Rings’ ended the place they’re going to drop the ring into the fireplace after which as a substitute of hitting the fireplace, he catches it,” Stewart stated.
“Consider how laborious that’s on somebody, we don’t really feel unhealthy sufficient.”
