Jon Stewart Delivers Powerful Message With Fake Trump Executive Orders
Image by YouTube
By Thea Glassman February 1, 2017
Jon Stewart made a cameo on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Tuesday night, mocking Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders and offering some sobering advice to those who oppose the president.
The comedian appeared on stage dressed as President Trump which, according to Stewart, pretty much just meant wearing a “super long tie and a dead animal on [his] head.”
Wig slipping down his face, Stewart read out a series of upcoming fake executive orders, which included forcing China to ship their Great Wall to the U.S., and decreeing that Americans learn an entirely new language.
“The new official language of the United States is bullshit,” Stewart said. “I, Donald J. Trump have instructed my staff to speak only in bullshit. And by the way, none of that ‘Sure, I’ll speak bullshit at work, but at home, I’m going to use facts and real information.’ No, bullshit all the time. Immersion, it’s the only way to be fluent.”
The bit turned serious when Stewart read out the president’s final executive order, which declared that Trump was “exhausting.”
“The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the public,” Stewart said. The comedian went onto call Trump’s eleven days in office “purposeful, vindictive chaos.”
He added, though, that there may actually be a solution.
“If we do not allow Donald Trump to exhaust our fight and somehow come through this presidency calamity-less and constitutionally partially intact, then I, Donald J. Trump, will have demonstrated the greatness of America,” Stewart said. “Just not the way I thought I was gonna.”
Thea Glassman is an Associate Editor at the Forward. Reach her at glassman@forward.com or on Twitter at @theakglassman.
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.
If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.
Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
