Jon Stewart continued to criticize media coverage of Donald Trump’s Fresh York trial during Thursday’s episode of Daily show. “It was another critical week of non-stop penis-to-penis coverage of the Donald Trump trial,” Stewart said at the beginning of his monologue.
Stewart, who usually hosts Monday’s episodes of Comedy Central, missed the beginning of this week due to a previously announced absence that appears to have resulted from his live appearances in Los Angeles this past weekend. Instead, he hosted this week Thursday’s episode.
Additionally, this week, Stormy Daniels testified in the former president’s Fresh York hush money trial, further sparking a flurry of headlines regarding the lawsuit.
“Unipresent relationships are numbing and turn into TV wallpaper with insight that only appears sometimes,” Stewart continued.
This week’s episode isn’t the first time Stewart has referenced media coverage of the trial. IN Daily show aired in delayed April, titled “America’s Most Wanted,” Stewart said the trial “will obviously be a test of the fairness of the American legal system. “But it is also a test of the media’s ability to report responsibly about Donald Trump, a task they have admitted they have performed poorly in the past.”
“Perhaps this hyper-focus of our media is intentional to distract Americans by keeping visions of dancing penises in their heads,” Stewart continued on Thursday. “All the time, Americans are losing their freedoms in their own country.”
The rest of his monologue focused on the right’s backlash against the Biden administration’s neat energy initiatives, the official name change of the Boy Scouts of America to Scouting America, and the president’s recent threat to withdraw further weapons from the Israeli government.
“The Biden administration has withheld the shipment of 3,500 munitions of the over 300,000 munitions that Israel has already dropped into Gaza to try to prevent the Israelis from attacking the area where all the refugees in this war are currently sheltering,” Stewart said, then addressing the issue conservatives – including Trump – who called Biden’s move disgraceful.
“I’m sorry, rabbi,” Stewart said satirically in response to Trump’s comments. “Thank you very much for taking the time off from the hush money lawsuit for a porn star without a condom to lecture Jews on shame. I will consider your moral situation next Yom Kippur.”
