Late-night hosts, including Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers, wasted no time before sharing their honest thoughts on the weekend’s military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and expelled him from the country, as well as President Donald Trump asserting that the United States would rule Venezuela at least temporarily.
Stewart, host of The daily showkicked off Monday’s show, joking about how “President Trump and an elite team of Delta Force special operators removed a dangerous foreign dictator from power.” However, before getting to a photo of Maduro, he flipped through photos of other controversial world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. The host also jokingly added a photo of Vecna, the villain from the Netflix film. Stranger Things.
“No, I’m talking about the current former president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, who was imported and imported,” Stewart clarified. “He was actually imported into a Brooklyn jail.”
“Now, obviously, this is a very difficult time for the world. It’s very unusual for a government, a sovereign nation, to violate the airspace and territory of another sovereign nation and go after their president,” The daily show continued, adding: “Look, no one knows how this operation is going to play out. But based on America’s past, I guess we’re going to be really happy about it for a few weeks. And then in 30 years there will be a Venezuelan left-wing revolution, and the new government will point to this moment as the reason our embassy there is on fire. And that will absolutely ruin the Democrats’ presidency. In general, that’s how this shit works. And remember, the The reason MAGA was so attached to Donald Trump was because he was the guy who wasn’t going to get involved in this kind of shit anymore.
Stewart later lost his temper at Trump’s frankness when he spoke with reporters over the weekend about one of the seemingly main reasons for the operation to capture Maduro and take control of Venezuela. “We’re going to extract a tremendous amount of wealth from the ground. We need full access. We need access to oil,” Trump said in clips that The daily show played during the show.
“Oil – a precious commodity, sure – but it’s not the reason why a country, formed 250 years ago on the ideas of freedom and self-determination, would go into a country and snatch a man at night. There has to be a slightly nobler pretext,” Stewart said before shouting: “Is this your first war? I mean, what the hell is this?”
The host added: “We can’t even be conspiracy theorists now. I think they did it for oil. Yeah, no, I did it for oil.”
Stewart also pointed out the precedent this sets for future generations in America, “if we need shit and it’s not too far away, we’ll take it.” »
“The people I pity are the Trump accusers, the defenders, the sycophants, who haven’t gotten the message that we no longer need to frame our adventurism within the ideals of our great country,” he said, adding: “Look, all of this is exhausting and exposes the Gulf of America – not the body of water. The real Gulf of America is the gap between the high aspirations that embody the founding of this country and the thug gangsterism that this crew thinks makes us great again.
Late at nightMeyers also focused Monday’s “Closer Look” segment on the entire situation in Venezuela.
“Donald Trump made history this weekend by becoming the first ever FIFA Peace Prize winner to bomb another country and kidnap its leader,” he joked at the start. “The most astonishing turn of events since Hannibal Lecter’s classmates voted him least likely to eat your liver.”
While some Republicans have tried in recent days to avoid talking about the real reason for the military operation, Meyers later played a video montage of Trump and members of his administration repeatedly talking about the vast oil reserves Venezuela has.
“Damn, I just wish there were clues,” the host joked. “It’s truly amazing how Trump undermines everyone around him and confesses the truth. He has all his little minions on TV saying it’s really about drug trafficking or human rights, and then Trump immediately throws them under the bus by repeating the word oil over and over again, like the uncle no one listens to. Family feud.”
Meyers also played up what he called “the hypocrisy package,” pointing out Trump’s lies about his opposition to the war, as the president has previously said: “We will stop the reckless and costly policy of regime change abroad.” But then he captured Maduro this weekend.
“I still can’t believe anyone thought Trump was telling the truth about his opposition to the war,” he added. Late at night host added. “You really thought that Donald Trump, the most impulsive and impulsive man on the planet, would suddenly discover the concept of restraint when he took control of the most powerful military in the world. Giving Donald Trump control of the US military is like casting Real Housewives an open bar and a free slap coupon. There’s going to be a lot of fighting, a lot of crying, and a lot of really bad dancing. »
