Jon Stewart

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.

We created...

this stable world.

That's where our leverage and power is coming from.

And to see him piss it away with such velocity, I think it's, is our system up for being able to grab the wheel?

Are we all just still trying to gain our bearings?

No worries.

Right.

It's so interesting to think of it that way, as Trump as almost a vaccination against far-right populism, that they see how it operates.

But maybe that's the difficulty we have in processing him because we look at it, you know, you mentioned Benjamin Harrison, you mentioned Calvin Coolidge, and we process him through our own system of constitutional republic, right?

But he's kind of thrown our lot in

with a different form of government.

It's hard to compare him to American presidents.