Jon Stewart Calls “Penis-to-Penis” Trump Trial Coverage “Numbing”

Jon Stewart continued together with his criticism of the media’s protection of Donald Trump‘s New York trial throughout Thursday’s episode of The Every day Present. “It has been one other massive week of wall-to-wall, nonstop penis-to-penis protection of Donald Trump’s trial,” Stewart mentioned at the beginning of his monologue.

Stewart, who sometimes hosts Monday evening episodes of the Comedy Central present, missed the beginning of this week in a pre-announced absence that was probably on account of his dwell appearances in Los Angeles final weekend. As an alternative, he hosted this week’s Thursday episode.

Additionally, this week, Stormy Daniels testified within the former president’s New York hush cash trial, additional fueling an onslaught of headlines relating to the lawsuit.

“The ever-present protection is numbing, fading into televised wallpaper with perception that solely often crackles by means of,” Stewart continued.

This week’s episode shouldn’t be Stewart’s first time going after the media’s protection of the trial. In a Every day Present section aired on the finish of April titled “America’s Most Tremendously Wished,” Stewart mentioned that the trial “will clearly be a check of the equity of the American authorized system. Nevertheless it’s additionally a check of the media’s capability to cowl Donald Trump in a accountable manner, a job they’ve acknowledged that they’ve carried out poorly prior to now.”

“Maybe this hyperfocus by our information media is purposeful, to distract People by conserving visions of dancing penises of their heads,” Stewart continued Thursday. “All of the whereas, People are shedding their freedoms at residence.”

The remainder of his monologue touched on right-wing backlash towards the Biden administration’s clear power initiatives, the Boy Scouts of America’s official title change to Scouting America and the president’s current menace of withholding additional weapons from the Israeli authorities.

“The Biden administration has paused one cargo of three,500 munitions of the over 300,000 munitions Israel has already dropped on Gaza to attempt to forestall the Israelis from attacking the world the place all of the refugees of this struggle are presently sheltering,” Stewart mentioned, then relating conservatives — together with Trump — who mentioned the transfer on Biden’s half was disgraceful.

“My apologies to you, Rabbi,” Stewart mentioned satirically in response to Trump’s feedback. “Thanks a lot for taking time without work of your condom-less porn star hush cash trial to ship a disgrace lecture to Jews. I’ll replicate in your ethical standing subsequent Yom Kippur.”