July 18, 2026
Jon Stewart Says Trump Acts Like ‘Grandpa Who’s Lost His Filter’


On this weekโ€™s episode of โ€œThe Daily Show,โ€ Jon Stewart attacked President Donald Trump for his lack of focus amid the United Statesโ€™ war with Iran.

โ€œYou know, honestly, his leering behavior is less โ€˜Commander-in-Chief at war,โ€™ and more โ€˜grandpa whoโ€™s lost his filter in public,โ€™โ€ Stewart joked of Trumpโ€™s recent demeanor. โ€œInstead of assuaging a nervous nation, heโ€™s just embarrassing the whole family at dinner, going, โ€˜Hey, do you see our waitress is a busty one! Just like your grandma was.โ€™โ€

Regardless of how Trump acts, the late-night pundit asserted that the presidentโ€™s โ€œloyal henchmanโ€ will do everything they can to โ€œassure you that itโ€™s really the opposite of everything youโ€™re seeing.โ€

Stewart then cut to a clip of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend. During his on-stage interview, he said Trump has โ€œencyclopedic, molecular knowledge,โ€ and recalled a time when the president drew a โ€œperfect mapโ€ of the Middle East on a placemat and โ€œput the troop strength of every country on every border on that map.โ€

โ€œHas anyone thought about filming that? Let us see that,โ€ Stewart said. โ€œBecause thatโ€™s not what we see. What we see is a president four weeks into a war he has yet to fully explain, with objectives he has yet to fully define, only displaying molecular knowledge in a cabinet meeting of his own pen preferences.โ€

The show then cut to a clip of Trump at a cabinet meeting regaling his administration about the time he was handing out โ€œ$1,000 pensโ€ to his supporters.

โ€œThey were $1,000 a piece, beautiful pen, ballpoint, $1,000, it was gold, silver, gorgeous,โ€ Trump said in the clip. โ€œBut Iโ€™m handing out to kids that donโ€™t even know what the hellโ€” โ€˜What is this, mommy?โ€™ Thereโ€™s kids, theyโ€™re getting a pen for $1,000. They have no idea what it is.โ€

โ€œThat is a cabinet meeting during a fucking war,โ€ Stewart exclaimed. โ€œYou know, all we keep hearing from this administration is why the American people have to sacrifice for Trumpโ€™s vision of Americaโ€™s greatness. That these temporary disruptions are just part of the process, and why canโ€™t we be patriots? We have to be patient, we have to suck it up, whether itโ€™s high gas prices or whimsical tariff inflation or draconian I.C.E. raids or temporary bill of rights suspensions. Itโ€™s on us to understand, but Trump gets to be his same old, โ€˜Ainโ€™t I a stinker,โ€™ utterly self-absorbed, โ€˜Remember when I used to want to fuck hot girlsโ€™ self.โ€

Watch the entire monologue below.

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