Jon Stewart on Trump’s Heel Turn on Zelenskyy & Elon's Interview Challenge | Matthew Desmond
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show. How are you? My name is John Stewart. Thank you. Oh, man. Thank you. We got a great showboy tonight. I'm very excited. As you can see, I am fully healed. This is what caused all the commotion. They glued it back together. Where is it? They glued it back together. Boom. That's all. That's it. That's what nearly brought an old man down. A tiny punctured wound that all the blood in my body went, let's go! We got a hell of a show tonight. My guest, sociologist and author Matthew Desmond is going to be... They love him. They love him. Fresh off his upset win as best supporting actor. And the crowd goes wild. But first, if I can just pick up something from the last time that I was out here. I made a bit of a critique of Elon Musk and the Doge program. Let me reset the scene. I am not allowed to have big boy mugs anymore.
There was an actual meeting of the safety department of Paramount and Viacom that was like, no more ceramic for Mr. Stewart. So they wanted to baby-proof. So this is... Anyway, we had some critiques about Doge after the show Governor Musk tweeted, or X'd, I guess, that he would like to come on here and talk to me as long as the show airs unedited. So I thought about it. And after a prayerful week with my family, well, a family, This is a family hall pass situation.
You don't want to know.
You don't want to know, and quite frankly, I don't want to know. But after thinking about his offer, I thought, you know, hey... That's actually how the in-studio interviews normally air. It's unedited, so sure. We'd be delighted. As a matter of fact, let me sweeten or unsweeten the pot. The interview can be 15 minutes, it can be an hour, it can be two hours, whatever. I'll be honest, I don't think this network makes any other programming. So we can do whatever the we want as long as we rap before the new season of South Park, which comes out like May or June of 2026. So I am game. I think it'll be a very interesting conversation. But then I checked X again and I saw another tweet from Elon because you can't not.
And he then said, after saying, I'd like to come on, Jon Stewart cannot be trusted and that I am a propagandist and... You give me too little credit. And that I am not bipartisan. Again, the guy who custom made his own dark MAGA hat... that he wears to opine in the Oval Office with the president who he spent $270 million to elect thinks I'm just too partisan. I'm really not sure what he thinks bipartisan means, but it's generally not I support Donald Trump and also Germany's AFD party. That's not bipartisan. That's just the same shit. So I guess what I would say is this. Look, Elon. I do have some criticisms about Doge. I support, in general, the idea of efficiency and delivering better services to the American public in cheaper and more efficient ways. And if you want to come on and talk about it on the show, great. If you don't want to, sure. But can we just drop the pretense that you won't do it because I don't measure up to the standards of neutral discourse that you demand and display at all times?
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