Donald Trump is once again becoming president — and it's time to "saddle up la resistance," comedian Jon Stewart told viewers late Monday on "The Daily Show."
Stewart recalled that the left was "clear-eyed" about what was at stake before the election, as he played a super-cut clip of MSNBC host Joe Scarborough saying "fascism" was on the ballot and New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman asserting that the president-elect is paving the way for himself to "become Vladimir Putin" or "Adolf Hitler."
The montage also showed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) calling Trump a "clear and present danger to our democracy" and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggesting that electing the MAGA leader would be a "betrayal of everything that our framers fought for."
Stewart carefully noted, however, that Schumer's warning in particular felt flat — as he never bothered to look up from his podium as he delivered a dire warning.
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Poking fun at Schumer, Stewart put on a pair of glasses and imitated the majority leader, even joking, "You know, a little eye contact, a little inflection could drive the danger thing."
"You give it a little urgency, you know...." he joked.
Stewart then tore into Jeffries and Goldman, who tried to spin the Democrats' election results in TV interviews, including Goldman telling MSNBC Democrats flipped three House seats and gained back "almost all of those that we had lost in 2022."
The explanation fell flat with Stewart, who responded, "Yeah almost is doing a lot of work in that sentence."
"Almost is kind of a load-bearing adverb spin-wise, finding a positive in what is clearly not good news," said Stewart. "You can't — 'Parents, we gained back almost all of the children we lost on the field trip.' Win-win!"
Stewart then turned his gaze onto President Joe Biden, who spent part of the week in the Amazon rainforest to highlight the dangers of climate change and call for the world to ditch fossil fuels.
"What the f---?" a stunned Stewart let out after playing a clip of the president in the Amazon. Stewart shouted: "In the middle of all this, he disappeared to the rainforest?"
Stewart then played a clip of Scarborough and fellow "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski telling viewers that they visited the president-elect in Mar-a-Lago to discuss deportations, retribution, and more — a statement that drew widespread criticism from internet critics.
"We've learned nothing!" shouted Stewart. "Even those putting up resistance to Trump's agenda don't seem to understand who they're dealing with."
Stewart railed that government is now an "overly-complicated, Byzantine, bureaucratic maze of rules, loopholes to those rules and norms" — complex enough that you can use rules to keep you from doing something, but with enough loopholes that if you want to accomplish anything, you can get around that rule.
"Republicans exploit the loopholes. Democrats complain about the norms. Over and over and over. And it has ghastly consequences," said Stewart. He begged for Democrats to figure out to become "the loophole guys that "figure out how to get s--- done."
"They don't give a f--- about your norms," he railed. "They will exploit any loophole, even if they have to go through clearly closed windows to do it."
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