Kicking off his monologue on tonight’s episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart addressed his recently renewed contract, thanking fans for their support, as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers’ triumph over the Toronto Blue Jays, joking about America’s biggest “enemy” — Canada.
Similar to John Oliver last night, the political comic delved straight into President Donald Trump‘s Great Gatsby-themed bash amid what’s shaping up to be a hunger crisis as tens of millions of Americans lost their food stamp benefits. (The administration has since agreed to partially fund SNAP using contingency resources.)
“He wasn’t working for the American people. That was just some Hollywood Babylon shit that once and for all shows that Donald Trump doesn’t give a fuck about even looking like he gives a fuck. At all,” he said.
Stewart continued, “On the very night SNAP benefits ended, Trump threw a Gatsby-themed ode to decadence and hedonism that even Jeffrey Epstein would have thought was a little over the top.”
Addressing the slogan — “A little party never killed nobody” — Stewart exclaimed, “Did you even read The Great Gatsby? Spoiler alert: The party killed somebody! Two somebodies! How do you not know that?”
The comedian concluded, “This president seems to go out of his way to let struggling Americans know that he is doing very well. Your premiums may be going up, tariffs may be shutting down your small businesses, you may be losing your food assistance, but it’ll all be OK because Donald Trump is building a ballroom that looks like the inside of Marie Antoinette’s vagina.” (Last week, Stewart said the 90,000 square foot construction is indicative of Trump looking to stay in the White House for the “long haul.”)
Addressing one segment from far-right network Newsmax’s coverage of SNAP funding expiring — which solely featured Black social media users’ videos and depicted the anchors leaning heavily on racist stereotypes — Stewart commented: “Subtle, with the B-roll you used and the verbiage. I mean, you guys could be referring to any one of the 40-some million who are using food stamps … to get weaves or subscribe to BET+ or people — I don’t know, just people — who have a People History Month. I don’t know who you’re referring to.”
Closing out the monologue, Stewart donned a shawl to illustrate the irony of Trump’s bailout of Argentina, which includes importing the country’s beef, amid the SNAP cutoff, playing a version of Fiddler on the Roof titled “Hungry Fiddler: Too Weak to Climb to the Roof” with a short cameo from Michael Kosta.
“In a different time on this program, we would illustrate this disparity with a short play. Probably would have had John Oliver come out dressed, perhaps, like Oliver Twist. We would do a whole thing where he’s begging the president: [With accent] ‘Please, sir, I’d like some more beef. Argentinian beef.’ Yes, and John would be using his fake English accent. John is from Fort Lee. But, obviously, we can’t do that; John and I work on different one days a week,” he said.
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