Jon Stewart is getting unmoored in time: The political comedian felt like he was back in the early aughts days of The Daily Show, likening the United States’ military buildup and aggression off the coast of Venezuela to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Kicking off the Monday night episode, Stewart derided President Donald Trump‘s reception of FIFA’s inaugural “appease” prize, delving straight into the headlines — concerning the air strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean — afterward: “Did this meaningless award mean nothing to you?” Playing clips of conservative anchors’ insistence the intervention is unlike Iraq, the comic said, “Are you fucking kidding me? You guys have the balls to tell us that the pretext for Iraq was bullshit, and that war was a mistake, and we’re not like that, and also, Venezuela has weapons of mass destruction and we have to stop them?” Related Stories News Rachel Scott Parries By Posting Video Of Donald Trump's Promise To Release Second Strike Footage After He Called Her "The Most Obnoxious Reporter" News Trump Declines To Take Sides, For Now, In Netflix And Paramount Pursuit Of Warner Bros.: "None Of Them Are Particularly Great Friends Of Mine" While showing the parallels between rhetoric then and now, such as from former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who said Saddam Hussein harbored and worked with terrorist networks, Stewart quipped, “Ah, terrorist networks — that’s the worst kind of networks; even including Paramount+, it’s the worst kind of network.” After the audience enthusiastically clapped, Stewart laughed, adding, “You are going to get me fired.” Watch on Deadline “I think the saddest part of getting into a war of choice in 2025 is that Dick Cheney won’t be around to see it,” he quipped, faking sentimentality.
