Jon Stewart criticized the state of the U.S. on the most recent episode of The Daily Show, noting how Trump’s America has become a “dizzying, chaotic carnival ride.”
“It’s fucking madness out there,” Stewart said. “TSA lines longer than your trip, escalating threats in the Middle East, planes driving into trucks. The only thing giving me joy is looking forward to this season of The Bachelorette. I mean, they got a strong, Mormon woman; she seems lovely. Hope that she finds—hold on, I am getting a call. No!”
After discussing the situation in Iran, Stewart dove into the situation with the TSA, which is resulting in incredibly long lines. “Here in America we don’t even need a war to degrade our own infrastructure,” he said. “Our airports are collapsing all by themselves.”
He added, “American travelers are so stressed out. What incredibly uncontroversial American enforcement agency would we deploy to our airports to ease passengers’ journey?”
Stewart noted how the Trump administration will now be deploying ICE agents to airports to help with the TSA lines. “We’re sending in ICE agents to calm the situation,” he said. “It makes perfect sense. It’s kind of like the way we calm our dogs during thunderstorms with a blanket of fireworks.”
He noted, “Not to worry, our incredibly competent government knows exactly how these ICE agents can help alleviate these incredibly long TSA lines.” Stewart then played a clip of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy commenting that the ICE agents run “the same type of security machines at the southern border.”
“Oh great, well that will be really helpful if it’s true,” Stewart said. “Is it true, guy in charge of ICE?” In the next clip, White House Border Czar Tom Homan claims that, actually, ICE is not trained in X-rays.
“ICE isn’t trained on X-rays,” Stewart remarked. “No surprise. They don’t really seem to be trained on anything, actually. And by the way, who the fuck even thought it was a good idea to send America’s most hair-trigger agency into America’s most hair-raising environment?”
He added, after showing a video of Trump’s taking credit for the idea, “It’s so fucking stupid. Meanwhile, the rest of us suffer under Donald Trump‘s attention deficit-style of government by whim. And as America, and really the world, has to helplessly navigate the turbulence that Trump causes.”
