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Jon Stewart

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

It's almost easier to compare him to strongmen.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

I mean, I don't know if you saw they unveiled the Trump library

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

But it's not a library.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

It's the Freedom Tower as if the only tenant was Kim Jong-un.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

Like it's twice the size of a height of any building in Miami.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

And then in it are just gold statues of Donald Trump and his plane.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

So how do we process an American president that has so much more in common with the illiberal strongmen of today and the past?

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

The arc to triumph.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

I mean, and you know, when they build it, they're going to drop the I, and it's just going to be the arc to Trump.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

Yeah.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

Yes.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

No question.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

And an ADHD.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

I think what you find now is and the only thing I can think about it is I'm trying to, again, be charitable is.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

if you don't think of him as a dictator, but you think of him as, all right, he believes the United States is really just a subsidiary of the Trump organization.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

And so he's running it.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

if you don't think of it in terms of Putin, you think of it in terms of a businessman running a company that's not public.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

So all the decision-making that occurs, he is, in essence, it's monarchy, but through a capitalist monarchy.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

That would be the charitable definition of it.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

And I think what you see is he's able to move