“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart on Monday warned that in less than one year, President Donald Trump has dragged the United States into a “confusing, dark place.”
Just days into 2026, the administration has done everything from placing steak atop the food pyramid to Trump declaring himself the “acting” president of Venezuela after sending the U.S. military to remove its leader, Nicolás Maduro, and bring him and his wife, Cilia Flores, to New York to face criminal charges.
“We are on the Donald Trump Gravitron,” Stewart said, referring to the carnival ride that spins and uses centrifugal force to pin riders against the wall. “We don’t know what up or down is, we just know it feels like we’re all gonna vomit!”
“This president has made monumental changes to the manner in which this country operates,” Stewart said.
He then played clips of Trump spinning the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by his supporters as a “peaceful” event, which led to his mass pardon of all involved ― even those who attacked police.
Trump and his allies tried to rewrite history again last week after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. Stewart played clips of right-wing media figures claiming Good was attempting to kill officers with her car, even though the footage showed no such thing.
“Motherfucker!” Stewart declared after playing the clips. “We are in a confusing, dark place. And this is where, quite frankly, rule of law and institutions are kind of an important framework.”
Now, he said, those are gone, and what’s left are two systems: one for those who support Trump and another for those who don’t.
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