Jon Stewart recently claimed that former President Trump’s “decline” in the current election is making him resemble Joe Biden, now that the president has exited the race.
“I’ll tell you what I think is happening, to be perfectly honest. I think he is, before our eyes, becoming Biden in this race,” Stewart remarked on his podcast, “The Weekly Show,” which aired on Thursday.
Stewart drew a parallel between Trump and Biden while he discussed Trump’s viral interview with Tesla, SpaceX, and X CEO Elon Musk.
“The whole idea was that performance by Biden in the debate was so shocking to the system of functionality where you watched a guy and you go, ‘Oh s—. This is a real decline in a way that we had not anticipated,’” Stewart began.
“This is just a remix?” This is how lazy Trump is- he’s using the exact same attack lines against Kamala Harris as he did against Joe Biden. (Video: Comedy Central) pic.twitter.com/rZwAM7RkkJ
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“But it obscured what is clearly going on with Trump as well,” he continued, noting Trump’s “rambly” response during the interview.
“And so when you remove that from the equation, you’re just left with a much more stark focus on what his decline is,” Stewart remarked about Trump.
“Then you listen to those Twitter Spaces, and again, he’s always been a bit rambly,” he added, “but holy f—.”
President Biden signs a proclamation designating Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument in Springfield, IL. pic.twitter.com/xJjI6mHGAm
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On Friday, Biden proved he is still actually present in the White House, despite dropping out of the election, but managed to make a memory gaffe during his appearance.
“I never thought that, having been in the Senate for so many years as well as vice president for 12 years — for 8 years and president for 4 years that I’d see, that I’d have to worry about people wanting to erase history,” Biden said, referring to Red states barring Critical Race Theory in classrooms.
Biden was signing an order to classify an area in Springfield, Illinois, where a white lynch mob in attacked black residents in 1908, as a national monument.
“It’s important, important, important,” Biden said, slapping his desk to emphasize his point, “that anybody that walks by this area knows what happened here because it could happen again if we don’t take care of ourselves and fight for this democracy.”
On Thursday, Biden met with actor Martin Sheen, who portrayed a fictional president on “The West Wing,” and had a testy exchange with the press.
“Mr. Trump says he wants to make America affordable again. Your response?” a reporter asked Biden as he left the White House for an event with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Reporter: “Mr Trump says he wants to make America Affordable Again. What’s you response?”
Biden: “He ought to get a job.”
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“He ought to get a job,” Biden retorted nonsensically.
When another journalist questioned if he had “any regrets,” Biden replied, “talking to you guys.”
Asked if he would meet with the Vatican’s new ambassador to Washington, Biden responded, “I gotta check with my mom,” while curiously pointing at the sky.
Last week, veteran news anchor Katie Couric interrogated former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about why Biden’s mental decline was glossed over by his party for months.
Couric suggested on her YouTube channel that Biden’s family should have intervened about his “physical stamina,” which led to her arguing with Pelosi about not being transparent with the public about his sliding mental fitness.
“Should people have earlier determined that perhaps he didn’t have the physical stamina to endure a reelection campaign and put the Democratic party in a better position for this election?” Couric inquired.
Pelosi claimed that Couric was “making an equivalence that doesn’t exist,” and that not having “stamina to run and serve” for another term “is different from undermining democracy in their office.”
Naturally, she pivoted to attacking Trump rather than admitting Biden should have stepped aside sooner.
“And that’s what Donald Trump was doing. This was about his harm to the country and his instability that he was bringing to it, and the anti-patriotic attitude he had,” Pelosi deflected.
“It wasn’t about whether he was healthy enough to do this or that by physical health,” she added. “It was what was happening in his distortion of the facts and how he was misrepresenting to the public.”
'That Doesn't Answer The Question': Katie Couric Presses Nancy Pelosi Over Lack Of 'Transparency' About Biden's Health pic.twitter.com/cOEUgRGDTo
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The former House Speaker contended that the situations were completely different.
“If it’s just a question of if somebody has the stamina to [serve] for four years, we have addressed that. They haven’t.”
Couric pressed on, “shouldn’t there have been more transparency?” While Pelosi reiterated twice, “They’re not equivalent.”
“But that doesn’t answer the question of whether there should have been more transparency,” Couric hammered.
“If President Biden was too protected and kept from the public for too long, and that it put the Democratic party at a disadvantage, given the election is less than 100 days away?”
Pelosi replied twice, “Biden is not the candidate.” Couric snapped back, “Should it have been addressed earlier?”
Pelosi then praised what she saw as a “successful NATO Summit” Biden hosted, where he mitigated concerns about his political future.
She also labeled Biden’s handling of a prisoner swap with Russia, where Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were freed in exchange for a Russian assassin, as a “virtuoso performance.”
“It was masterful. He’s been functioning A+. Whether he could do that for another four years is a different story,” Pelosi stated.
“We haven’t lost anything with his service, whereas with that other guy, we were getting our democracy shrunken and diminished and our freedoms diminished,” she rambled on.
“I don’t think it’s the equivalent of somebody saying somebody didn’t do well in the debate, and whatever the family decisions were.”
Watch Couric’s full interview with Pelosi here: