Returning to hosting duties The daily show, Jon Stewart tackled everything from President Donald Trump’s dispute with the Vatican to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s election defeat.
The POTUS recently took umbrage with Pope Leo XIV peace amid the ongoing US-Israeli war against Iran, but Stewart urged him to reconsider: “And look, President Trump, I know the Vatican has been critical of your policies, but you have to remember that at the end of the day, both you and the Catholic Church historically care deeply about the same thing: covering up sex scandals.”
Although the Republican leader’s comments against the sovereign pontiff upset many believers of the Christian faith, the late-night host assured that “please don’t worry, things are getting worse” as Trump posted and then deleted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ.
The photo showed Trump in messianic attire, curing a figure that eerily resembled Stewart. The comedian spent a few minutes zooming and squinting at the photo, putting his hand to his head to check the resemblance.
“I know I don’t have the stamina and spunk of my MTV days, but I didn’t know we were already here,” Stewart joked. “I didn’t realize my gaze had reached leprous territory. I mean, from the picture, it looks like it was with me for a while.”
And he added: “This is scaring the hell out of me.”
After the image sparked intense backlash, Trump was asked by a reporter to comment on the matter, at which point he defended the photo as a representation of himself as a doctor.
“Even careful Are you not lying to us anymore? Is it over? [Has] Is this relationship over? Your lies used to have a real spark: ‘They’re eating the cats and dogs, Venezuela stole the 2020 elections.’ And now the best you have is: ‘Oh, was it like that? Jesus? I am a doctor.’ You need to find your happy place fast. We expect better lies, sir,” Stewart said.
Toward the end of his monologue, Stewart referred to the decisive defeat of Orbán, a far-right populist and Trump ally, and noted that the celebratory atmosphere of the Hungarian citizenry symbolized hope and modeled where the United States could soon be.
“Please, God, let the dam be breaking,” he said. “Folks, this has been a truly shitty year, as we’ve all been at the mercy of the fickle whims of a megalomaniac man-baby. And we’re tired. The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the people. But I tell you: there is hope. Donald Trump’s air of invincibility is slowly being eroded by world events and his own heart’s ability to clear the liquid from his capillaries.”