It’s the day everyone has been waiting for: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book Original Sin, detailing President Joe Biden’s declining mental state in the final year of his presidency and the failed reelection bid is here. CNN, where Tapper works, has been hawking the hell out of this thing, as Jon Stewart points out during Monday’s broadcast of The Daily Show, continuing to tease the bombshell revelations the book purportedly contains, even after the Biden family shared the former president’s cancer diagnosis on Sunday. “Forgetting about the fact how fucking weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should have told you was news a year ago for free—” Stewart begins to rapturous applause, “It’s just fun to watch them not only continue to push the book in light of difficult news, but to actually frame this difficult news as perhaps even more of a reason to buy this book.”
But, obviously, it’s not just the so-called liberal media that Stewart calls out. The host presents a whole montage of right-wing talking heads going on cable news to say that they hope Biden has a quick and speedy recovery, but. Even if you don’t like a guy, you don’t really need to add qualifiers to well-wishes. Donald Trump himself managed not to add a “but” to his Truth Social post about Biden’s diagnosis, though Stewart points out it’s so unlikely that the president wrote it himself that “Truth Social sent him a security alert.” “We noticed some suspicious humanity on your account,” he quips. “If this was in fact you, President Trump, please reply ‘Nancy Pelosi’s husband is gay.'”
Don’t worry; the niceness was a big false alarm. Within a day Trump was suggesting that Biden had cancer for “a long time” because he was at “stage nine.” At the end, Stewart admits that he also wouldn’t be shocked if Biden had had cancer for significantly longer than we were told. “I understand the excitement over an insidious Democratic cover-up about Joe Biden’s mental decline,” he says. “The thing is, though, it was a terrible cover-up because we all fucking knew.” But, as he concludes, Joe Biden is not the president anymore, and there are some pretty blatant cover-ups happening with the current one. You can check out the full clip below.
