Jon Stewart

And I can't shake that feeling of impending catastrophic.

So I wanted to kind of pick your brain a little bit about how you're processing this moment, knowing how well you're able to see the landscapes of the past and lay them into the present.

That's a beautiful way of putting it.

And there's also something within that kind of tableau that seems really appropriate, which is the cataclysm always seems to occur.

the night before, Cataclysm Eve, if you will, always seems to be draped in finery.

You know, you sort of, you almost get that sense of using the Titanic as that's, you know, and what's happening, the band is playing in the grand ballroom and people are draped in there and they're riding in luxury on what appears to be a kind of portend for this glorious and

future of riches.

And then there's one dude who's like, hey, what's that?

What's that shadow of an iceberg that's over there?

And it feels that way a little bit here.

And I'll tell you why this moment for me is the world faces those challenges and potential cataclysms and all those things and navigating these difficult waters.

The difference for me now is the captain of our ship seems utterly disinterested

In where the icebergs seem to be, in when the crash may happen, he just wants to get out.

He wants to stand on his plane with a giant poster board of his ballroom.

It's the lack of interest in the consequences of his powerful actions.

is I think what's got me on such shaky ground.

I don't think, I feel like we've never been at the, you know, at the peril of a leader so disinterested in the damage of his own actions.

Right, right.

Yeah, the problem almost seems to be that Trump is destroying it faster than we can react to it.

That the squandering, it really is like, you know, this 80-year world order that you speak of was designed and maintained by the United States.