“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart on Monday tore into President Donald Trump for backtracking on the release of files related to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump is demanding that people stop talking about Epstein, causing some of the president’s most loyal supporters to turn on him.
“Surprisingly, MAGA world, for the first time in memory, isn’t just slavishly acquiescing to Trump’s reality distortion field,” he said, and played clips of figures on the right trashing the president after the Justice Department said last week that the long-rumored Epstein client list doesn’t exist.
Stewart said MAGA world is “in open revolt,” with some even burning their infamous red hats.
“MAGA is losing their shit right now,” he said. “They cannot believe what they’re seeing. Trump is lying? Dismissing reasonable concerns as bad-faith whining? Attacking anyone who disagrees?”
He offered a message directly to the MAGA-verse.
“As a resident of blue America, can I just say right now to my red colleagues that my pronouns are ‘how does’ and ‘my ass taste,’” he said. “The Trump that you’re just experiencing now, to your deep disappointment and dismay, is the dude we’ve been dealing with the whole fucking time. You just didn’t realize it ’cause he’s been nice to you.”
As an example, he showed how Trump treats disasters in red states very differently from those in blue ones, offering quick assistance in Texas after last week’s deadly floods, but threatening to withhold aid in California during the fires earlier this year.
“Whatever you need, Daddy’s here ― because you’re the child he wanted,” Stewart told the red states.
But the blue ones?
“We’re Eric,” he said.
See more in his Monday night monologue: