The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Jon Stewart on Trump’s Inauguration and Elon Musk's Nazi Salute | Brooke Harrington
Tue, 21 Jan 2025
Jon Stewart unravels the absurd "weave" of Trump's Inauguration Day, from Joe Biden's buzzer-beater pardons to the tech billionaire VIPs, to the passive-aggressive transfer of power. Plus, the Best F**kin News Team has full coverage on day one of the second Trump era. Brooke Harrington, economic sociologist and author of “Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism," discusses modern American oligarchies and the behavior of the ultra-rich. They talk Donald Trump’s “broligarchy” of American tech billionaires, how they differ from the oligarchs of Russia and the Gilded Age, and how a coalition of laborers is the only way to dismantle the system.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What were the highlights of Trump's inauguration?
hey welcome welcome to the daily show uh my name is uh hold on my name is my name is john stewart i'm your host most historic vibe shift of the day uh
Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States, a man whose licentious and felonious behavior has been well cataloged and documented, returned to the Capitol Rotunda just four short years after inspiring, in that very place, a day of riotous shit. returned to the exact same room.
Now, generally, if this were a Dateline documentary, he would return to that room to express a form of repentance and maturity and acknowledgement of the pain that had been wrought on that terrible day. But in this show that we're filming now, it's to be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. And as with most returning to the scene of the crime,
It began with tea with the people you tried to steal it from.
A short time ago, President Joe Biden greeted Mr. and Mrs. Trump at the White House for tea, an inaugural tradition.
It's always important to keep up the tea tradition when you hand over the keys to, I'm sorry, what did you call them? Hitler? but gotta be a good host. Hey, the Wi-Fi password is White House, but I changed the I to a one. I hope that's not weird.
I'm not saying Biden should have done his own insurrection, but there's gotta be a happy medium between storming the Capitol and would you like a crumpet? But everyone showed up. Yes, it's the Supreme Court taxiing in. Oh, please. They're taxiing in like the private jets some of them take to caged pheasant hunts. All very legal.
And America's illustrious senators like Amy Klobuchar and Deb Fischer. And of course, Hakeem Jeffries was there. And Fetterman was... Are you... Come on! Fetterman! Really? Shorts? It's not even an inaugural decorum thing. It's f***ing freezing out there. It's a health concern. Fetterman is literally America's teenage son. It's your grandma's funeral. I told you I don't like long pants!
Fine, be cold. Even the president's family attended, most of whom didn't have to be warned not to do that weird f***ing thing with their hands. Don't, hey, hey, hey, don't, don't do it with your hands. Can you just be normal for a day? What was he doing? Literally like, look at my dick. Huh, what, no, okay, okay.
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Chapter 2: How does Jon Stewart critique the political scene?
The black guy from the movie Selma? no. Well, yeah, but no, no.
John, I have an update from Resistance headquarters that the Cheetos man is not going to like.
Yes, does he do initiatives? Is there another march?
Not going to be necessary. I'm hearing Rachel Maddow is coming back five days a week. And when she compares what's happening now to the Shays' Rebellion of 1787, woo boy, I would not want to be Trump.
Excuse us. Excuse me, sorry. I'm sorry, Grace.
Cool, Trenton.
We're being recognized again. Why are you dressed like a caveman and a robot? Hmm? Oh, we were understudies for the village people.
Yeah. Yeah, if the copper Native American gets sick, then cavemen and robots step in.
Well, aren't you guys a little, like, ashamed at all about performing at the Trump inauguration, or...?
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