“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart stated President Donald Trump’s absence from the highlight over Labor Day weekend led to speedy questions on his well being ― and even on-line rumors that he was lifeless.
“It does say something about the ubiquity of Donald Trump in our lives that we don’t hear from him for 20 minutes and we’re like, ‘He’s dead,’” Stewart identified.
Trump reemerged after his vacation absence.
“Trump is alive,” Stewart stated. “I definitively would not go so far as to say ‘alive and kicking.’ Something is up with his health.”
The White Home has stated Trump suffers from power venous insufficiency, which entails poor blood movement from the legs again to the center and results in the swelling across the toes and ankles seen in pictures of the president.
Trump has additionally been utilizing make-up to masks bruising on his hand, which the White Home stated is because of frequent handshaking mixed with aspirin use.
Stewart didn’t like taking a look at pics of Trump’s bruises:
“Jesus, Grandpa, put ’em away! Holy shit!” he stated, averting his eyes. “And what’s with the makeup? It’s not like you can treat leprosy at Sephora.”
He famous that these are simply the components of the president’s physique we are able to see.
“I bet everything on that body not covered by clothes is all fucked up right now,” he stated.
However Stewart stated the president’s arms and ankles may not be the surest signal that one thing’s up with the president’s well being, and it’s not even Trump’s sudden fixation with entering into heaven.
“It’s that whenever any of his biggest supporters are with him, it sounds like they’re saying goodbye,” he stated, and rolled footage of a latest Cupboard assembly the place every member took turns saying one thing good about Trump.
The White Home even launched a clip lately of Trump providing life classes that Stewart thought resembled the sorts of movies launched to honor the “recently departed.”
“Once you begin to notice this pattern, you begin to see really the whole vibe around this president is very Make-A-Wish kid,” he stated. “Everyone who shows up to his office tries to make one of his dreams come true.”
He performed clips of Trump getting an honorary badge, or being allowed to carry a sports activities trophy, or getting a go to from a favourite movie star.
However there’s an issue with that.
“The people around Trump know that he is a never-ending insatiable black hole of wishes,” he stated.
And the Supreme Court docket could have granted him essentially the most harmful present of all.
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