Jon Stewart weighed in on the Los Angeles protests in opposition to Donald Trump‘s escalation of ICE deportations, saying the tactic is to distract from the tit-for-tat feud between him and Elon Musk, wherein the tech titan accused him of being within the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata.
“Is your metropolis ever not on hearth? Whether or not you win a basketball championship, a World Collection championship, whether or not you might have an exploding piñata gender reveal gone unsuitable — congratulations, it’s a boy and an evacuation — otherwise you’re simply protesting the Trump administration’s expanded deportation raids, L.A. continues to be our most flammable metropolis,” Stewart started throughout tonight’s installment of The Each day Present.
Commenting particularly on the autonomous automobiles that had been set on hearth throughout a few of the demonstrations, Stewart quipped: “Took 5 of them earlier than you had been like, ‘Ought to we cease sending the Waymos?’” He added jokingly, “How dare you? How may you utilize Waymo’s innocence and useful spirit in opposition to the Waymo? Think about for a second: Waymo’s disappointment upon realizing it was, as Admiral Ackbar would possibly say, ‘a lure!’ You bought Waymo going, ‘Hi there, it’s my honor to take you to Hollywood and—what are you doing? My God no! I’m providing you with just one star. Inform my Roomba I like her!’”
In his signature misdirect, Stewart then seemingly praised the MAGA-sphere for approaching the disaster within the Metropolis of Angels with a “somber” tone, taking part in clips of a sequence of newscasts, together with Ted Cruz saying the state of affairs was “deeply unlucky.”
Besides — “I’m sorry, I’m being informed that wasn’t about Los Angeles,” Stewart stated, “that was them heartbroken that Trump and Elon have gone no-contact. That’s a barely completely different factor. That’s true. See, for the Proper proper now, I suppose that’s the actual nationwide tragedy … See, the upset in L.A. is in a blue state, in a blue metropolis, with those that they don’t give a f— about.”
Insinuating that the sending of the Nationwide Guard is to “distract from” one other necessary matter, Stewart addressed Musk’s allegation, which has since been scrubbed from his X social media platform.
“Oh proper, that’s what we had been speaking about, which, now, to be truthful to Trump, it’s ridiculous — I imply, you’ll be able to’t simply make wild accusations like that simply because Trump and Epstein frolicked as soon as, or twice, or Trump was within the flight logs or Epstein referred to as Trump his ‘closest good friend,’ or they went to events and whispered, I can solely assume, Biblical passages in one another’s ears,” he stated.
Concluding his phase, the political comedian added, “It have to be laborious for the Proper 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 manner and the harm that that conduct causes. And I suppose what I’d say to the Proper is: ‘Welcome to our f—ing world day by day. Now .’”
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