“Daily Show” guest lord Jon Stewart sounded on the constant “fascist” attacks from the media to President Donald TrumpSaying that they have “stunned” the country because of that.
In an off-air clip shared by the show on X, Stewart was asked by a public member about what he would say to critics who accused him of being ‘light on the fascist message’.
“Oh, well, I would tell my critics- keep your mouth shut! You’re a fascist!” Stewart responded jokes.
Stewart told the public that he appreciated the question and understood the ‘desire’ to call Trump a ‘fascist’, but further explained why he himself abandoned the use of such rhetoric.
Host “Daily Show” Jon Stewart said the media were crying Wolf with his constant “fascist” attacks on President Trump. (Photo by Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty images)
“I am very big and I know it is annoying, but specificity and nuance,” said Stewart. “And I think that if you are ‘fascism’ cries with every administrative scope, even those who are constitutionally in order, you will be yourself from fascism bullets when the time really comes.”
“I think what the media have done in the last ten years, Cry Wolf is, to the point where they have stunned everyone,” he continued. “It was an anesthesia, and it was true what was the thing they tightened during this campaign?” He is a fascist, he is a terrible person, democracy is on the mood. ” Guess what was lost at the (polls) if you told democracy, democracy was made by a majority of voting. “
“So I am very careful about when I have to know, such as, yes, hopefully I won’t do it the night after Kristallnacht … but it’s like putting your dog down. It’s one of those things like, you are not Totally of course, but I understand how annoying that is, “Stewart added.
President Trump was designated on a large scale as a ‘threat to democracy’ by the media during the elections. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
Stewart is not the only one who doubts the use of the “fascist” label for Trump. “Breakfast Club” co-gastheer Charlamagne who called God Democrats for their sudden change of heart after Trump won the presidential election.
“Do you not find it strange that now he has won, they don’t call him a threat to democracy? They don’t call him a fascist. I mean, damn, on Monday they just called him that, “Charlamagne said in November.
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Stewart told his audience that he is “very careful” when it comes to using “fascism” label to Trump like others in the media. (Comedy Central)
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“I would think, you know, if you really believe that, then someone’s speech would go about how America pops up and how things are really bad. It makes you wonder how much of it really believed, or how much of it was just political.
