Jon Stewart has predicted Donald Trump will burn ‘our f***ing country down for the insurance money’ by the end of his presidency.
The 62-year-old comedian has recently focused his attention on criticizing the left, taking a jab at CNN for concealing Joe Biden’s deteriorating condition and expressing the need for Democrats to move beyond ‘the stink’ associated with defending the former president.
But he returned to his typical form of trashing the right during an appearance on Bill Simmons’ podcast this week.
The comedian claimed networks – including CBS and ABC – had chosen to ‘pay tribute to the king’ when the president came after them legally.
With Simmons comparing it to the Corelone family of The Godfather movies, Stewart had an even darker prediction.
‘What you’re seeing now is, ‘All must pay tribute to the king.’ And the price of peace is different,’ Stewart said. ‘
He cited the $15million ABC is paying out to Trump and Jeff Bezos shelling out $40million for a documentary on First Lady Melania.
Stewart bluntly continued the mafia theme and referred to the payments as ‘protection money.’
A disturbed Jon Stewart harrowingly predicted Donald Trump may burn ‘our f***ing country down for insurance money’ by the end of his presidency
Stewart noted not only the $15 million payout from ABC but also Jeff Bezos spending $40 million on a documentary about Melania and Mark Zuckerberg funding Trump’s inaugural.
He asked: ‘Ultimately at the end of this, does Trump burn our f***ing country down for insurance money? Like, where are we headed?’
The Comedy Central host criticized his own network, Paramount, for deciding to settle with Trump over an edited clip of Kamala Harris aired on 60 Minutes.
Stewart said: ‘Imagine paying $50million for f***ing nothing, just to get somebody to approve a merger.’ Stewart added that he won’t stop there.
‘He’ll go after Harvard and Comcast or whatever the hell else he does, because a policy of appeasement always leads to more conquest,’ he said.
CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon said Monday she’s quitting the network – with a tense statement hinting at her unhappiness at the newsroom’s current state.
McMahon, 50, sent a memo to staffers that included a veiled reference to Trump’s $20billion lawsuit against the network over its interview with Kamala Harris.
The resignation was first reported by The New York Times, three months after insiders first said McMahon was set to lose her job.
He finally asked: ‘Ultimately at the end of this, does Trump burn our f***ing country down for insurance money? Like, where are we headed?’
CBS News boss Wendy McMahon announced Monday that she quit the network over the possible settlement with Trump
‘It’s become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward,’ McMahon wrote in her memo.
‘It’s time for me to move on and for this organization to move forward with new leadership.’
Both McMahon and former 60 Minutes boss Bill Owens opposed a plan by Shari Redstone, the heiress of CBS parent company Paramount, to settle the ongoing suit being brought by the president.
The lawsuit claims that an October 60 Minutes interview with Harris was deceptively edited.
McMahon, whose less than two-year stint was plagued by poor ratings, called her tenure ‘one of the most meaningful chapters in my career.’
Both Owens and McMahon suggested corporate overreach spurred their decisions, as the deadline for a proposed media merger between Paramount and Skydance approaches.
The Trump administration must approve the deal.
McMahon – who had tapped Owens to implement her vision of a two-host version of CBS Evening News – wrote of her next move: ‘It’s time for me to move on and for this organization to move forward with new leadership.’
Trump’s suit – which names both CBS News and Paramount as defendants – accuses 60 Minutes of selecting a more coherent answer from Harris to help with her presidential candidacy.
CBS News has maintained Harris had merely given a lengthy answer, which was then cut down due to time constraints.
