Back for its first Monday night episode The daily show This year, Jon Stewart led President Donald Trump and his MAGA base in their reversal toward non-interventionism following last week’s overthrow of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Making headlines after the holiday, the political comic declared that POTUS “removed a dangerous foreign dictator from power” and then flashed onscreen images of various international autocrats, including Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (“not that one, they’re actually friends and, frankly, I think, business partners”), Russian President Vladimir Putin (“they’re pretty close too”) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (“I think these two are more friendly “). Passionate rivalry vibe, if you know what I mean, so it’s not the one”), as well as Stranger Things arch-enemy Vecna (“no, it wasn’t us”).
Stewart instead joked with the GOP leader: “inverted and effectively imported.” [Maduro] in a prison in Brooklyn.
“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 that moment as the reason our embassy is on fire,” the host said, drawing similarities between the current Iranian revolution and the one in 1979. “And that will absolutely ruin the Democrats’ presidency.” (Stewart previously compared recent military actions to the failure of the Iraq War.)
Stewart also ridiculed Trump’s turnaround from anti-foreign war candidate to hawkish, with the president making no secret of his interest in the South American nation’s rich oil reserves as a casus belli.
“Usually in American history, when we intervene in another country, whether it’s true or not, we invent a noble pretext: liberate a people, spread democracy, introduce baseball to the Japanese – they complained at first, but it was totally worth it. On what moral basis will this conflict be framed?”
He later continued, mocking Trump: “We can’t even be conspiracy theorists now! ‘I think they did it for oil.’ “Yeah, no, I did it for the oil. »
After playing a clip of U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick “turning conquistador” for citing Venezuela’s steel and minerals as a further argument for U.S. intervention, Stewart also asked Trump to next target Colombia, Cuba and Mexico.
“Is there anything else you’d like to take on? I think there’s still time after Warner Bros. Discovery,” he said wryly. “I mean, America doesn’t have the money for Netflix, but we will after we get this sweet oil.”
And even though Stewart was back in fine form, catching up with pop culture references and new zingers tonight, he missed an opportunity to To many joke with this one: “There is no material on Earth more malleable than the hive mind connection between Donald Trump and his acolytes.” »
