“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart had nothing but praise for “60 Minutes” personality Ross Douthat for his follow-up questions with Donald Trump in an interview aired Sunday night.
But what he really enjoyed was getting the president defending making money hand over fist with a question asked about former President Joe Biden, often called “Sleepy Joe” by Trump when he attempts to malign the former president’s mental acuity.
In the clip, at about the 6:45 minute mark, Douthat brought up reports that Trump now has a net worth of about $3 billion as he makes business deals while sitting in the Oval Office.
“Now, this is something I've thought about for a while, right?” Douthat prompted his guest. “So your son manages or helps manage a cryptocurrency company called World Liberty Financial. You are--”
“Which-- which son are we talking about? Which--” Trump attempted.
"You are a co-owner of that company,” the 60 Minutes interviewer pressed on, to which Trump replied, “That's correct, yeah.”
“That's correct, right? This company is also partially owned by investors connected to the government of the United Arab Emirates,” Douthat continued. “I think if I told you that story and it was about the Biden family, if I said Joe Biden is the part owner of a company and it has all of these investments from the Middle East, you would say, ‘That sounds corrupt,’ right?”
According to Trump, “But here's the difference-- I'm gonna tell you why. Because I know nothing about it.”
That led Comedy Central’s Stewart to interject, “My god. Ross, you beautiful bearded b---ard. Do you know what you have just done here? Do you have any idea what you just did here? You have made Donald Trump admit that difference between him and Joe Biden is that Joe Biden is more aware of his surroundings.”
As the studio audience laughed and cheered, Stewart added, “That is what you did.”
Stewart then mimicked Trump saying, “The difference is, I have no idea what happened.”