Jon Stewart is not feeling sympathetic to Donald Trump supporters who are only just now turning on him.
On his Wednesday Weekly Show podcast, the host skewered those who have only just now expressed their “regret” voting for the president because of the Iran War. “The thing that I get most frustrated with,” Stewart said, is that supporters say, “‘Well, he got convinced, or maybe his mental acuity...’ This is who he’s been! From the f---ing get-go,” Stewart said.
“When people say, like, ‘Well, I’m upset with him now, and I regret my vote ‘cause he lied.’ He lied the minute he came down the escalator, through, ‘Oh, it’s the largest inauguration that’s ever been seen throughout history.’ There is nothing fundamentally different about his decision-making process or about the manner in which his ADD pushes him from lurching from one endeavor to another.”
Stewart and his producers had just been discussing MAGA’s fissuring over Trump’s war. Stewart said steadfast MAGA supporters have had to “write the narrative” of the war for Trump: “It’s not his fault.” The host added sarcastically, “Of course, the man who has the greatest agency that has ever been promoted from the Oval Office is suddenly at a whim.”
Stewart said Trump’s latest moves confirm his quip that he’s a “movie trailer president.”
“He doesn’t have the stamina to sit through the whole movie,” the host said. “He’s just the trailers. And right now, the Iran War: ‘Hey, the trailer’s done. Now what do I do? So now I just gotta leave.’ It so frustrates me that all these people on the right are like, ‘Oh boy, this really pushed me over the edge.’”
That has been the case, however. Trump has lost the blind support of some of his most prominent MAGA talking heads over his bombings of Iran, including mega-podcaster Joe Rogan and web show host Megyn Kelly. His approval ratings are plummeting with every new poll, and conservative firebrands like Ann Coulter and former MAGA-favorite Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene have even turned on Fox News for its positive coverage of the Iran War.
Stewart said he finds the sudden fissures nonsensical: “This is the same f---ing thing we’ve been dealing with for 12 years.”
