“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart performed the function of fantasy buster on Monday night time as he in contrast what Donald Trump’s supporters declare to like about him to what the previous president has really mentioned and executed.
Trump supporters, he famous, declare Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t supplied specifics on her coverage proposals.
So he broke out a chart to attempt to monitor Trump on those self same sorts of particulars ― however after a number of minutes of clips of Trump rambling in response to very particular questions, Stewart gave up.
“What the precise fuck are you speaking about?” he requested in exasperation.
In a single clip, Trump was requested about in vitro fertilization.
“I informed my folks I wished to take a look at this a few weeks in the past and as you recognize now we have no taxes on a factor known as ideas, you recognize that?” Trump mentioned.
Stewart supplied a mocking translation.
“IVF fertilizes an egg with a sperm, and sperm comes from a penis, and a penis has a tip,” he mentioned. “So I can solely assume Donald Trump is speaking about circumcision, which Jews name a tax on ideas.”
Trump supporters additionally declare he’s a good friend to the American employee.
However Stewart made brief work of that as his performed clips of Trump’s anti-worker boasts, together with the previous president admitting he wouldn’t pay overtime.
“You’re admitting to fucking folks over who labored for you.” Stewart mentioned. “I imply, it’s humorous. But it surely undercuts the ‘working man’s good friend’ factor.”
He additionally nailed Trump on different hypocrisies, together with his flip-flops on points reminiscent of free speech and conflict.
But he additionally performed clips of Trump backers calling him a “fact teller” and praising his “honesty.”
“Are you fucking kidding me proper now?” Stewart requested. “Are you fucking kidding me.”
Stewart concluded that Trump’s supporters are backing somebody who doesn’t exist.
“It’s as if they’ve created a fictional character,” he mentioned. “A bizarro Trump, whose accomplishments and character bear little resemblance to the self-aggrandizing, perpetual sufferer man he continues to let you know explicitly that he’s.”
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