Jon Stewart on Thursday dismissed Donald Trump’s claims that media coverage of his health is “inflammatory and possibly even treasonous,” after a New York Times article suggested the president was showing “signs of fatigue.”
Stewart joked on the latest episode of his “The Weekly Show” podcast that Trump is the “fittest, strongest president” in U.S. history and that he discovered that “the thicker the ankles, the better the balance.”
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“For Donald Trump, loyalty never rises to a level that satisfies him. You can’t do that with any level of kissing,” Stewart said.
The Times’s Katie Rogers and Dylan Friedman reported last month that Trump’s workdays are getting “shorter and shorter” and it’s increasingly difficult to project an image of “energetic, energetic and physical around the clock.”
In recent weeks, Trump’s series of apparent naps in meetings and discussions surrounding MRIs have raised further questions about his health and cognitive health.
Earlier this week, the president went into a tirade (again) on his Truth social platform about the New York Times report, declaring that “no president has ever worked as hard as me,” before adding that his hours on the job are “the longest” and his results are “one of the best.”
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Stewart said on his podcast that everything was “incendiary” for Trump, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem thanked Trump at a recent Cabinet meeting for preventing “hurricanes” this year.
“He’s angry at Fox News, which is essentially Trump’s 24/7 ball-washing machine designed specifically to keep him in power,” he said.
“So it makes no sense for him to say something inflammatory or treasonous because the bar for entry into Donald Trump is purely on how well you prove your undying loyalty to the King. Anything less than that is clearly inflammatory, and unfortunately, none of us meet that standard.”
Stewart said becoming a billionaire president is “sad” and “so hard.”
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“Money corrupts, power corrupts, and with all the money and power, it’s like the ending of Lord of the Rings where they throw the ring into the fire and instead of hitting the fire, he catches it,” Stewart said.
“It doesn’t feel bad enough to think about how difficult this is for someone.”
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