“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart on Monday evening admitted he didn’t assume Donald Trump would “get this authoritarian, this quick” after the president threatened to send U.S. citizens to prison in El Salvador.
“I feel the hosts of ‘The View’ are about to get ‘administratively errored,’” he warned.
However that led him to 1 query, full with its personal emblem: “How authoritarian is we?”
Stewart checked out what makes authoritarians tick, from a love of cheesy decor to an internal circle of cronies who bathe them with flattery, applause and laughter.
He performed a clip of Trump’s Cupboard providing “essentially the most embarrassingly sycophantic hosannas” as they went across the desk delivering over-the-top reward.
“Once I watch these Cupboard conferences, I really assume: Are they making enjoyable of him?” Stewart mentioned.
However it’s not simply reward that authoritarians crave.
“The true autocrats extract one thing a lot, a lot weirder and humiliating: The pressured uncomfortable laughter,” Stewart mentioned.
He rolled footage of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un getting that type of laughter ― adopted by “America’s expensive chief” Trump getting laughter from his Cupboard after making a joke that nobody appeared to get.
“It’s simply so fucking bizarre,” Stewart mentioned.
And that’s not the one manner Trump is hurtling towards authoritarianism.
See extra within the Monday evening “Every day Present” monologue:
