Jon Stewart led Monday’s episode of The Every day Present with Donald Trump’s hush cash trial and dinged information networks for the way they cowl it.
“This trial will clearly be a take a look at of the equity of the American authorized system, but it surely’s additionally a take a look at of the media’s capability to cowl Donald Trump in a accountable approach. A activity they’ve acknowledged they’ve carried out poorly prior to now,” Stewart stated earlier than a supercut of the media claiming that they had discovered their lesson on the way to cowl Trump.
The supercut included clips from all main cable information networks like CNN, MSNBC and Fox Information. Stewart mocked the community’s personalities, including, “I believe from this trial we are going to see the seeds of that introspection bear fruit, or we are going to study that studying curves are for pussies.”
One other supercut of the foremost information networks was launched, with many claiming that Trump’s trial was “the trial of the century.”
“Maybe if we restrict the protection to the problems at hand and take a look at to not create an all-encompassing spectacle of probably the most banal of particulars, maybe that may assist,” Stewart added.
Stewart launched a supercut of the media’s protection of Trump arriving on the courthouse and having cameras comply with his motorcade as he made his approach by means of NYC visitors.
“Severely, are we going to comply with this man to court docket each f***ing day? Are you attempting to make this OJ? It’s not a chase. He’s commuting,” Stewart stated.
Stewart then made enjoyable of a second on CNN the place Jake Tapper interrupted one among his commentators to tell viewers {that a} new picture of Trump contained in the courtroom was on display. In one other second, Tapper confirmed one of many courtroom sketches and tried to determine what was occurring.
“Why are you displaying it to us? It’s a sketch,” Stewart stated. “Why would anybody analyze a sketch? It’d be like The Final Supper and going, ‘Why do you assume Jesus appears to be like so unhappy right here?’”
CNN would later have the sketch artist and host Erin Burnett requested her if Trump was sleeping in one of many sketches.
“My apologies. I used to be sitting 50 toes away. I used to be having such a wrestle to try to get these eyeballs in,” the sketch artist stated.
Stewart mirrored that “in some unspecified time in the future on this trial, one thing necessary and revelatory goes to occur however none of us are going to note as a result of the hours spent on his speculative facial ticks. If the media tries to make us really feel like probably the most mundane bullsh** is Earth-shattering, we gained’t imagine you when it’s actually attention-grabbing.”