The Traitors, Watch What Occurs Stay with Andy Cohen and The White Lotus all caught strays as Jon Stewart took on the subject of free speech throughout his Monday night time monologue.
The Every day Present host kicked off his newest episode by tackling the information of the day, notably Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth’s group chat blunder.
“Oopsie poopsie,” mentioned Stewart in reference to Hegseth by accident together with The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a gaggle chat in regards to the U.S. plans for navy strikes on Yemen.
“Again in my day should you had been a journalist who wished leaked warfare paperwork, you needed to work the sources, meet them in a darkish storage, acquire the belief, pound the pavement. Now, simply watch for the Nationwide Safety Director to be distracted by The White Lotus whereas he’s organising his bomb Yemen group chat,” Stewart mentioned.
However Stewart spent the vast majority of his TDS opening by speaking about free speech, and particularly, The Republican occasion’s hypocrisy in relation to the subject.
“These guys don’t give a f*ck about free speech,” he mentioned, bluntly.
“There are specific hypocrisies and absurdities that we discover in our cultural second that make for nice fodder for humorous dialogue: a facial features, a nod and a wink. Then there are different actions by our authorities which are so baldly bullshit, even when it would don’t have any impact, that these highly effective creatures have been genetically modified to withstand disgrace or self-reflection of any sort, you simply can’t assist your self however to go old-fashioned Every day Present gotcha,” he mentioned.
Whereas declaring that the Republicans, significantly the MAGA-end of the spectrum, spent 4 years beneath President Biden decrying Democrats for operating a “thought police”, he highlighted that the U.S. now has a President that really believes in free speech, so long as it tracks together with his personal views.
Then, in fact, Stewart performed plenty of clips of Trump claiming that information organizations equivalent to ABC, CNN and MSNBC ought to lose their licenses for saying issues that he doesn’t like.
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“Watch What Occurs Stay. I feel Bravo must also lose their license. What they did to Dorinda on Traitors… they need to be despatched to a Salvadorian hellhole,” joked Stewart in his personal Trumpian means.
“That is so blatant, they fetishize free speech, this factor that they don’t in any means apply,” 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 trouble you in any respect?,” he mentioned. “Go us all of the motherf*cking sick bucket.”
