Jon Stewart – after receiving the news of the night, that he was not invited to the Met Gala, he went out of the way – focused on the ongoing saga of “our situation with Iran.”
“Is it a war? A cease-fire? Are we bombing friends? I don’t know,” he laughed earlier Monday. The Daily Show a monologue. “Because, as you know, Friday marked the end of the 60-day impeachment trial of warring presidents. After 60 days, the president has to ask Congress, who then decides: Do we sign up? Or, do we use Israel’s password?”
In a speech in Florida on Friday, President Donald Trump stated that he does not need congressional approval for the War Powers Resolution as he calls it a military operation.
“You’d probably have to admire the president’s ingenuity just explaining … how he’s walking around our outrageous laws,” Stewart said. “It’s not a care in the world. It’s like going up to a McDonald’s cashier: Yes, I’ll get a cup of water. Well, I say water, because I don’t like to use the word ‘soda.’ When I say ‘water,’ I get it for free, but just to be clear, I’ll be drinking soda. But my plan is to use the word ‘water,’ to avoid any, what you call, payment problems.”
He continued, “Yes, Trump’s plan only works if he has the discipline to keep his statement that we are not actually at war. The segment then switched to a clip of Trump saying: “You know, we are at war.”
“It’s like looking at a cashier, filling his cup with soda. ‘I’ll have a Mountain Dew, a little Pepsi, a little Hi-C — I’m traveling the world,'” Stewart noted.
The late-night host noted that “Trump’s imperial ambitions” are “so bad that, last week, a real king born of a dynasty fought to establish our constitutional republic.” [Charles III]I had to come back here to remind us to fuck up.”
Stewart concluded, “Congress is not here to save us. The Judiciary is not here to save us. Voters are being abused for being able to save us. We have only one last card to play – our good fourth place.”
“Democracy dies in darkness, so we look to the free press, the news media,” he continued, as his voice rose to a higher pitch, “the inked bullies, the muckrake masters, the clickety-clack brigade, the tappers, the rappers, the Wolf Blitzers, the twitty twists.”
After playing a clip of reporters at the White House throwing out the opportunity for a follow-up question to Trump that America somehow now has twice as many missiles as it did before the SWANA war, Stewart pleaded: “We’re fed up. And, what’s the point of shouting your questions, if you’re not going to listen to the answers? We need our help?”
“If the mighty defender of American democracy is the King of England, we are the king [exaggerating Charles III’s Received Pronunciation] indeed you are burned,” he said as he closed one of his books.
