Back for his first Monday night episode of The Daily Show this year, Jon Stewart dragged President Donald Trump and his MAGA base for their course reversal on non-interventionism following last week’s toppling of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Catching up with the headlines after the holiday break, the political comic said the POTUS “removed a dangerous foreign dictator from power,” and then proceeded to flash images of various international autocrats on screen, including Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (“not that one, they’re actually friends, and quite frankly, I think, business partners”), Russian President Vladimir Putin (“they’re also quite close”) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (“I believe these two have more of a Heated Rivalry vibe, if you know what I mean, so it’s not that one”), as well as Stranger Things arch-nemesis Vecna (“no, that wasn’t us”). Related Stories Ratings 'The Daily Show' Touts 2025 Ratings Success News Board Votes To Dissolve Corporation For Public Broadcasting After Loss Of Federal Funding Stewart quipped the GOP leader instead “reverse-ICE‘d and actually imported [Maduro] to a jail in Brooklyn.” Watch on Deadline “No one knows how this operation is gonna work out, but based on the United States’ track record, my guess is we’re going to be really happy about this for a couple of weeks and then, 30 years from now, there will be a Venezuelan leftist revolution, and the new government will point to this moment as the reason our embassy there is on fire,” the host said, drawing similarities between the present and 1979’s Iranian Revolution.
