The Traitors, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen and The White Lotus all caught strays as Jon Stewart took on the subject of free speech throughout his Monday evening monologue.
The Daily Show host kicked off his newest episode by tackling the information of the day, notably Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s group chat blunder.
“Oopsie poopsie,” mentioned Stewart in reference to Hegseth unintentionally together with The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a bunch chat concerning the U.S. plans for army strikes on Yemen.
“Back in my day if you were a journalist who wanted leaked war documents, you had to work the sources, meet them in a dark garage, gain the trust, pound the pavement. Now, just wait for the National Security Director to be distracted by The White Lotus while he’s setting up his bomb Yemen group chat,” Stewart mentioned.
But Stewart spent the vast majority of his TDS opening by speaking about free speech, and specifically, The Republican celebration’s hypocrisy in terms of the subject.
“These guys don’t give a f*ck about free speech,” he mentioned, bluntly.
“There are certain hypocrisies and absurdities that we find in our cultural moment that make for great fodder for humorous dialogue: a facial expression, a nod and a wink. Then there are other actions by our government that are so baldly bullshit, even if you know it will have no effect, that these powerful creatures have been genetically modified to resist shame or self-reflection of any kind, you just can’t help yourself but to go old school Daily Show gotcha,” he mentioned.
While stating that the Republicans, notably the MAGA-end of the spectrum, spent 4 years below President Biden decrying Democrats for working a “thought police”, he highlighted that the U.S. now has a President that actually believes in free speech, so long as it tracks along with his personal views.
Then, after all, Stewart performed quite a lot of clips of Trump claiming that information organizations corresponding to ABC, CNN and MSNBC ought to lose their licenses for saying issues that he doesn’t like.
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“Watch What Happens Live. I think Bravo should also lose their license. What they did to Dorinda on Traitors… they should be sent to a Salvadorian hellhole,” joked Stewart in his personal Trumpian means.
“This is so blatant, they fetishize free speech, this thing that they do not in any way practice,” he added, earlier than highlighting Trump’s struggle with the AP over the designation of the Gulf of Mexico and the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil.
“These guys don’t give a f*ck about free speech. They care about their speech. It’s blatant hypocrisy,” he added. “The hypocrisy burns.”
Stewart then had some enjoyable with Trump demanding that an “unflattering” portray of him have to be taken down within the Colorado Capitol, earlier than closing out.
“Doesn’t this bother you at all?,” he mentioned. “Pass us all the motherf*cking sick bucket.”