The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Monday upped the ante against former President Donald Trump and mocked him after he made a campaign stop at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, quipping: “This campaign cannot get any weirder.”
Stewart in his opening monologue dubbed the last stretch of the US presidential campaign as the “fever dream” portion, with Vice President Kamala Harris doing events with Liz Chaney and Trump posing for a publicity stunt at a McDonald’s in battleground state Pennsylvania.
The comedian played a clip of Trump at the fast food joint.
“My first day at McDonald’s. I’m looking for a job. So, if you don’t mind, I want to work the French fry counter,” Trump said.
“Give him the job, I implore you. I don’t care if his references don’t shake out. Save democracy, give him the job.” Stewart said seeming to be stunned by the clip as the show cuts back to him.
“That’s his whole campaign right now. ‘Ave Maria’ dance party, ‘I’m going to deport everybody,’ football tailgate, blame the Jews if I lose, McDonald’s drive-thru. He’s out there having the time of his life and the poor, sweet media — oh, poor, sweet media — they know they’re mad. They’re just not exactly sure which thing they should be maddest about anymore. But I can tell you one thing, media, it probably shouldn’t be the McDonald’s thing,” Stewart added.
Stewart also played a clip of an MSNBC analyst criticising Trump’s “inept” fast food stunt and said that the former president “incapable” of working a fry machine.
“Look I’m all for criticizing Donald Trump, but I got to tell you, I also don’t know how to work the fryer at McDonald’s, and would be incapable of doing so,” Stewart joked.
He said the campaign is now at that point where “we can no longer discern the noise from the signal.”
“We’ve lost the ability to understand what level of outrage to even demonstrate,” he said. He continued by next poking fun at Trump’s lewd remarks over the weekend about golfer Arnold Palmer – which the comedian referred to as “where the absurdity-outrage cycle reached its apex.”
“First of all, I’m not here to fact-check the former president, but Arnold Palmer wasn’t all man. He was half man, half lemonade,”
