Jon Stewart: ‘How The F**k Is This Guy Our President?’
Jon Stewart Left Speechless After Wild Trump Moment: “How Is This Guy President?”
“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart was briefly stunned into silence on Monday night over an observation President Donald Trump made after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping last week.
“If you went to Hollywood and you looked for a leader of China, you couldn’t find a guy like him,” Trump said. “He’s tall, very tall. Especially for this country, ’cause they tend to be a little bit shorter.”
It took Stewart 15 seconds to respond.
“What the fuck are you talking about?” he finally asked.
Stewart said it might be “as good as we can expect” from Trump, given his history, and wondered if the president was ready to comment on the Chinese leader’s eyes while he was at it.
“You might be watching this and wondering: How the fuck is this guy our president?!?” Stewart asked. “How? How is this possible? He should not have this job. And yet… he does.”
But as Stewart pointed out, there’s another way to deal with this situation.
“Maybe it’s time to stop being exasperated by this, by Trump,” he said. “And maybe it’s time to see if we can glean lessons from Trump’s rise.”
And with that, he turned Trump’s career trajectory into mock lessons for recent college grads who are looking for a job. Honesty and hard work are out the window. Instead, Stewart sarcastically noted, grads could follow the president’s lead and be “cocky and super fucking weird” as they lie during job interviews and even insult their questioners.
“I don’t know why this works. I don’t fucking get it. I don’t,” he said. “But here we are – and here he is. And he’s the president, and I’m on basic cable. I don’t understand!”
‘Does Not Give A F**k Anymore’: ‘Daily Show’ Crushes Trump’s Most Corrupt Gambit Yet
Ronny Chieng should be asking if the president ever gave a f**k.
“Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng on Tuesday skewered President Donald Trump’s use of the Oval Office to enrich himself and his family.
The comments centered on reports that Trump bought stock in publicly traded companies and then publicly praised those companies and their products. For example, on Feb. 10, the president reportedly bought millions of shares of Dell stock. Nine days later, he told a crowd of supporters in Georgia to “go out and buy a Dell computer.”
“Wow! Okay, this guy does not give a fuck anymore. They’re gonna have to start replacing the presidential seal with a hashtag ad,” Chieng said. “In hindsight, we should have suspected something. I mean, if you’re telling people to buy a Dell computer in 2026, you’re probably doing something illegal. Okay, because even the people who make Dell computers are like, do they still make Dell computers?”
Chieng also noted that the clues about such corruption “were pretty obvious,” and played a clip from ABC News detailing a Truth Social post in which Trump included the Palantir stock ticker weeks after buying shares of the company.
“I mean, he’s even putting the stock ticker symbol in his tweet! You know, the way we all drop stock symbols into our everyday conversations. Like, ‘Hey, officer, officer. That man stole my iPhone (AAPL),’” Chieng said. “Here’s the bottom line. It’s undeniable at this point that Trump has achieved a level of corruption no one has ever imagined before.”
