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, in which the tech titan accused him of being in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“Is your city ever not on fire? Whether you win a basketball championship, a World Series championship, whether you have an exploding piñata gender reveal gone wrong — congratulations, it’s a boy and an evacuation — or you’re just protesting the Trump administration’s expanded deportation raids, L.A. continues to be our most flammable city,” Stewart began during tonight’s installment of The Daily Show.
Commenting specifically on the autonomous vehicles that were set on fire during some of the demonstrations, Stewart quipped: “Took five of them before you were like, ‘Should we stop sending the Waymos?’” He added jokingly, “How dare you? How could you use Waymo’s innocence and helpful spirit against the Waymo? Imagine for a moment: Waymo’s disappointment upon realizing it was, as Admiral Ackbar might say, ‘a trap!’ You got Waymo going, ‘Hello, it is my honor to take you to Hollywood and—what are you doing? My God no! I’m giving you only one star. Tell my Roomba I love her!’”
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In his signature misdirect, Stewart then seemingly praised the MAGA-sphere for approaching the crisis in the City of Angels with a “somber” tone, playing clips of a series of newscasts, including Ted Cruz saying the situation was “deeply unfortunate.”
Except — “I’m sorry, I’m being told that wasn’t about Los Angeles,” Stewart said, “that was them heartbroken that Trump and Elon have gone no-contact. That’s a slightly different thing. That’s true. See, for the Right right now, I guess that’s the real national tragedy … See, the upset in L.A. is in a blue state, in a blue city, with people that they don’t give a f— about.”
Insinuating that the sending of the National Guard is to “distract from” another important matter, Stewart addressed Musk’s allegation, which has since been scrubbed from his X social media platform.
“Oh right, that’s what we were talking about, which, now, to be fair to Trump, it is ridiculous — I mean, you can’t just make wild accusations like that just because Trump and Epstein hung out once, or twice, or Trump was in the flight logs or Epstein called Trump his ‘closest friend,’ or they went to parties and whispered, I can only assume, Biblical passages in each other’s ears,” he said.
Concluding his segment, the political comic added, “It must be hard for the Right to see how petty and petulant these two man-babies are and how they wield their power in vindictive and capricious manners when they don’t get exactly their way and the damage that that behavior causes. And I guess what I would say to the Right is: ‘Welcome to our f—ing world every day. Now you know.’”
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