Jon Stewart is looking for any straight answer about Iran or U.S. airports

Everything may be chaotic both in the United States and abroad, but at least there's a new season of The Bachelorette to look forward to, says Stewart.

Jon Stewart is looking for any straight answer about Iran or U.S. airports

Rarely, these days, does it seem like our geopolitical problems actually get solved. They do, however, get added to. This time last week, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart was trying to get clarification on Trump’s strategy in Iran. This week, he’s still trying to get clarification on Iran, and now also trying to figure out what is going on in our domestic airports. “The dizzy and chaotic carnival ride that is Donald Trump’s America continues to careen down shitshow hill,” Stewart says at the beginning of his show. “It’s fucking madness out there. TSA lines longer than your actual 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.” 

Let’s start with Iran. In the clip that Stewart dissects, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins does an admirable job of trying to press information out of the president when he says he’s been talking to “a top person” in Iran. “A top person? Or the top person?” asks Stewart. “The article really makes a huge difference here. Like, the guy? Or, some fucking guy?” Obviously, there’s no answer to this, but Trump does clarify it’s “not the Supreme Leader… but the people who seem to be running it.” Trump also says he has “many” and “like 15 points” of agreement with Iran as of now, and that points one through three are that they’ve agreed to stop their nuclear program. Stewart eventually dubs him “the Supreme Misleader.” 

As for the airports, there’s not a whole lot of clarity there. Not only are TSA wait times often multiple hours these days, but now the airports are full of a government agency that’s been killing people with more or less impunity. “We’re sending in ICE agents to calm the situation,” says Stewart. “It’s kind of like the way we calm our dogs during thunderstorms with a blanket of fireworks.” Check out the whole monologue below.   

 
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