Jon Stewart used the newest episode of his “Weekly Show” podcast (through The Daily Beast) to criticize the media for getting Americans scared about Donald Trump‘s second time period as president earlier than it’s even begun.
“The Daily Show” host mentioned America is in a “transitional interval the place we’re not positive about whether or not the bottom we’re standing on is strong” and famous how the media is simply stoking extra worry by being “satisfied that we’re the Roadrunner and the Coyote and the Coyote has run over the cliff, and we simply seemed down and realized there’s nothing beneath our toes and now we’re plunging to our deaths.”
“We don’t know what’s going to occur when Donald Trump takes over,” Stewart mentioned, including that Americans must be “ready for all outcomes” however “I don’t know the way useful it’s to get us shitting our pants this a lot, this early.”
Stewart is usually important in terms of how the media covers Trump. During Trump’s hush cash trial in April, Stewart slammed the media for reporting on all of the “mundane bullshit” from the trial as if it was “earth shattering information.” He inspired the press on the time to “restrict the protection to the problems at hand and check out to not create an all-encompassing spectacle of probably the most banal of particulars.”
“What the fuck are we doing?” Stewart requested. “Look! At some level on this trial, one thing necessary and revelatory goes to occur. But none of us are going to note as a result of the hour spent on his speculative, facial tics. If the media tries to make us really feel like probably the most mundane bullshit is Earth shattering, we gained’t consider you when it’s actually fascinating. It’s your basic boy-who-cried-Wolf… Blitzer.”
At the top of October following Trump’s controversial rally at Madison Square Garden, which featured comic Tony Hinchcliffe making a divisive joke about Puerto Rico, Stewart informed the media to not get carried away by specializing in the joke a lot and thus ignoring Trump himself.
“The media is concentrated on the horrible jokes that have been made. Focus on Trump, who would have the facility,” Stewart mentioned in a brand new interview with Vanity Fair. “Focus on the man going, ‘I’m going to deport everyone utilizing the regulation we used to intern Japanese folks.’”
Listen to Stewart’s most up-to-date episode of the “Weekly Show” podcast right here.
