Jon Stewart mocks Elon Musk, takes swipe at ‘reckless’ Trump rally claims

The Daily Show big Jon Stewart couldn’t assistance himself from mocking Elon Musk‘s quality astatine a Donald Trump rally implicit the weekend, utilizing his show’s opening conception connected Monday to interruption down the billionaire’s enthusiasm for the Trump run and what Stewart says is hypocrisy astir Americans’ First Amendment rights.

“Ooh, dark MAGA?” Jon Stewart quipped connected Monday’s occurrence of The Daily Show, taking a swipe astatine Musk, who showed up to the rally successful a achromatic “Make America Great Again” hat. “I didn’t cognize it came successful flavours! I wonderment if for the holidays they’ll travel retired with peppermint bark MAGA. Or pumpkin spice MAGA.”

The Tesla CEO and proprietor of X (formerly Twitter) was mocked wide online for hopping astir connected stage with his hands implicit his head, and Stewart joined successful the pile-on with his ain jokes.

“He’s acting similar a feline who won a vigor contest. ‘Oh, I can’t judge I get to bid connected the washer-dryer!’” Stewart said.

Jokes aside, Stewart zeroed successful connected the code Musk delivered to the Butler, Pa., crowd, which focused connected the First and Second Amendments.

“The different broadside wants to instrumentality distant your state of speech,” Musk said. “You indispensable person escaped code successful bid to person democracy. That’s wherefore it’s the First Amendment.… The Second Amendment is determination to guarantee that we person the First Amendment.”

The remark had Stewart peculiarly rankled.

“The guns don’t support our escaped speech. Our escaped code is protected by the consent of the governed laid retired done the Constitution. It’s not based connected the menace of violence,” helium said.

“Guns, from what I tin tell, look to mostly support the code of the radical holding the gun. It’s a instrumentality of intimidation. It is simply a instrumentality of intimidation and 1 that I deliberation is really being irresponsibly and recklessly invoked due to the fact that immoderate radical successful your assemblage thought they mightiness person been shadowbanned by Facebook.

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“I mean, for God’s sakes, you guys are successful Butler, Pennsylvania,” Stewart said. “The full crushed you’re determination is due to the fact that immoderate f—ing a–hole with an AR-15 tried to permanently litigate his imaginativeness of this country’s ‘free speech.’ That’s wherefore you’re there.”

He besides took offence with Musk applauding Trump’s committedness to escaped speech, pointing retired that the erstwhile president threatened ineligible enactment astir the upcoming biopic astir his life, The Apprentice, aft his squad called the movie “election interference.”

“It’s not escaped code if lone Trump’s admirers get to bash it without consequence,” Stewart said. “That’s conscionable not however it works. It doesn’t spell that way.”

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