Jon Stewart shreds media coverage of Trump's NYC trial
Did Jon Stewart just call "Fake News?"
Stewart made his weekly appearance on the Daily Show the same day of opening statements in Trump's criminal hush money trial, but it was the media's coverage of minute detail that the comedian took to task.
"At some point at this trial, something important is going to happen...but none of us are going to notice," Stewart said. "It's your classic 'Boy who called Wolf' — Blitzer!"
In his return to political satire, Stewart has skewered Republican Sen. Katie Britt's repeatedly mocked State of the Union rebuttal, Trump's Gettysburg tribute, and Tucker Carlson, to name just a few.
On Monday, Stewart ridiculed the cable news channels devoting hours of coverage to the Trump's every move in the courtroom. He also quipped a dismissed juror named Mark was his doppelgänger.
"Did I have jury duty?" Stewart asked.
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Stewart took to task a recent segment with the courtroom sketch artist who admitted her image of Trump, in which he appears sleepy, was the result of her struggling to draw his eyes from a distance.
"Damnit woman!" Stewart roared. "Does Donald Trump have eyeballs or no?"
This led to a montage of reporters describing Trump's body language.
"He walked toward me with a mixture of desire, scorn and lets call it age-related confusion," Stewart mimicked. "It was then that I realized that this former president of the United States has a front butt."
However, Stewart's rant was interrupted by comedian Jessica Williams who accused the host of being an old man who hates fun.
"This Trump trial is like an open window in Grey Hound bus full of farts," she said. "Why you trying to close the window, Jon, why you trying to make us smell farts?"
Williams' case for obsessive media coverage of the trial — in which Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges that he falsified business records to cover up hush money payments paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election — as follows.
"An extremely gross old man-slash-former president might go to prison for banging a porn star and trying to pay her off," Williams declared. "And you don't want us to cover that s--- all day long? Jon, the first witness is named David Pecker."