“Every day Present” host Jon Stewart stated the unrest in Los Angeles is a “predictable end result” of heavy-handed federal ways within the metropolis ― and that led him to 1 key query about President Donald Trump.
“What’s it meant to distract from?” he questioned, then added sarcastically: “I imply, I can’t even keep in mind, what have been we even speaking about proper earlier than the primary Waymo went up in flames?”
He rapidly answered his personal query: accusations by Trump’s former ally, Elon Musk, that the president is known as within the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata that the administration had promised to launch, then didn’t.
Stewart pointed to a curious interview final 12 months by which Trump rapidly answered “sure” when requested if he would declassify recordsdata associated to 9/11 and JFK.
However when requested about Epstein ― the late intercourse offender who was as soon as pleasant with Trump ― he paused, then hemmed.
Stewart stated Musk is threatening to reveal Trump, and Trump is threatening to go after Musk’s authorities contracts.
“It have to be exhausting for the precise to see how petty and petulant these two man-babies are, and the way they wield their energy in vindictive and capricious manners once they don’t get precisely their method, and the injury that that habits causes,” Stewart stated. “And I suppose, what I’d say to the precise is: Welcome to our fucking world. Day-after-day. Now you already know!”
He pointed to Trump’s threats towards Harvard College, legislation companies, Canada, and media corporations, all for opposing him or standing in his method.
“You on the precise didn’t give a shit when Godzilla and Mothra teamed as much as destroy town,” Stewart stated. “You’re solely mad that now they’re preventing one another, ’cuz you simply bought a style of their paper-thin, oversensitive, fragile, ego-driven nihilism.”
Stewart famous that many on the precise see the battle as one between two “giants” or “alpha males.”
In actuality, he stated, it’s nothing greater than a cat struggle between “a few fucking pussies,” and rolled the footage to match.
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