Jon Stewart Stunned Into 14 Seconds Of Silence After Trump's Bizarre Babble
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The "Daily Show" host tore into the president for dragging the nation into a war that he has failed to justify.
“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart tore into President Donald Trump – and his MAGA enablers in the media and in Congress – for pulling the United States into a war with Iran without making a compelling case for it to the public.
“Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but even regimes I disagreed with respected the American people enough, or felt some obligation, to at least lie to us in primetime,” Stewart said as he played footage of President George W. Bush delivering a televised address on Iraq.
While Trump has made some brief phone calls to members of the media, he’s largely ducked answering questions from the assembled press on camera. And after he returned to the White House from Mar-a-Lago on Sunday evening, reporters shouted questions at him about Iran. Yet Trump ignored them and stopped to admire some new statues in the White House Rose Garden ― a move Stewart likened to a “doddering Mr. Magoo.”
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Critics quickly seized on the president's phrasing.
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The president sidestepped reporters' queries about Iran, but paused just long enough to praise his new White House statues.
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