Jon Stewart aims at Donald Trump Daily performance.
After discussing the government's plans to potentially suspend due process, the late night host launched a series of news clips about JET worth $400 million. The clip explains that the president will use the plane during his term and “is transferred shortly thereafter to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation.”
Stewart replied: "What? Qatar brought us the plane Trump wants to keep? He was like the reverse Oprah." "'I got a plane! That's it. I got a plane. For my library!' Why does his library need a plane, why your presidential library needs Europe, I need a book about Trump, and this book has to travel in a comfortable way.
Stewart then played another clip detailing the conveniences on the jet, which included nine bathrooms and the largest bedroom in the sky. "Divine nonsense," Stewart pointed out. "That's not a plane. It's a fucking palace to fly. I won't tell Trump how to run his business, but I'll blow the shit out of those carpets."
He added: "But hey, this is a jet from Qatar. We can trust them. They are not as skeptical as Canada. Or try to undermine us like all other democratic allies in Europe."
Stewart reminds viewers that Qatar is considered an ally of Iran, China and Hamas. "Oh, Trump will get a $400 million jet from someone he will be expelled from Columbia University," Stewart said. Then he showed a clip of Trump, defending the gift, and proclaiming, "They gave us free planes."
"This is not a free plane," Stewart replied. "That's the point. You know the expression 'no free lunch or something?' That's about the motivation of the person who gives you sandwiches.
In his monologue, Stewart commented elsewhere on Trump’s plan to lower the price of drugs, noting that it wasn’t completely “mathematically.”
"I want to think that the tenacious pleas from progressive leaders such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders helped this," Stewart said. "Unfortunately, it's the honor of the largest and most important announcement in the president's history." Stewart shared Trump's "seriously overweight" business friend who inspired the move.
Since Friday, Stewart noted that “we have ever bribed the U.S. president, it seems that the surrender of the trade war and the socialization of the pharmaceutical industry.”
"What is this country?" he asked. "Four months ago we were the standard issue of the democratic constitutional republic. Now we are Anarcho, Klepto, Socialist, Communism, Silk Road reality show. The only unchanging foundation of the unchanging decree, we can even wear hats, which is what we are now as a country like any country that is closed to shelter."
Except for the whites in South Africa, of course. "What?" Stewart said in the simulation anger. "You already have one! Do you know Mr. President? You don't need 30, 37 South Africans. Now you only need one or two.