Jon Stewart Unleashes on Donald Trump: 'I Did Not Think He Would Get This Authoritarian This Fast'

“I gotta tell you, I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast,” Stewart remarked on Trump. “I really didn’t. I’m sorry. Who could have known? Maybe if someone out there had yelled at me on Bluesky about this I would’ve known, but no one did, except every day, in all-caps. So I guess the question is how authoritarian is we?”

Stewart continued ranting, stating Trump’s “done a lot of the standard fare,” including “attacking the free press,” pulling “random people off the streets,” making “law firms and universities bend the knee” and announcing “Department of Justice investigations into an individual whose sole crime was suggesting that the 2020 election had been safe and well administered.”

“They’re gold, all gold, look,” Trump explained to the TV star. “Throughout the years, people have tried to come up with a gold paint that would look like gold and they have never been able to do it. Look at that, look. You’ve never been able to match gold with gold paint. That’s why it’s gold.”

Stewart went at Trump for this as well, calling him “so blue collar” and noting “rooms filled with real gold cherubs are nothing if those rooms aren’t also filled with the echoes of the most embarrassingly sycophantic hosannas.”

He then played a clip of Trump’s cabinet members thanking him, laughing at his jokes and praising his “vision,” to which Stewart quipped makes them seem “so over the top” and as if they’re “making fun of him.” He also called the cabinet “embarrassingly sycophantic” and “just so f------ weird.”