Jon Stewart led Monday’s episode of The Each day Present with Donald Trump’s hush cash trial and dinged information networks for a way they cowl it.
“This trial will clearly be a check of the equity of the American authorized system, nevertheless it’s additionally a check of the media’s potential to cowl Donald Trump in a accountable means. A activity they’ve acknowledged they’ve carried out poorly up to now,” Stewart mentioned earlier than a supercut of the media claiming they’d realized their lesson on find out how 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’ll see the seeds of that introspection bear fruit, or we’ll be taught that studying curves are for pussies.”
One other supercut of the most important 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 check out 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 means by means of NYC visitors.
“Severely, are we going to comply with this man to court docket each f***ing day? Are you making an attempt to make this OJ? It’s not a chase. He’s commuting,” Stewart mentioned.
Stewart then made enjoyable of a second on CNN the place Jake Tapper interrupted one in all his commentators to tell viewers {that a} new photograph of Trump contained in the courtroom was on display screen. In one other second, Tapper confirmed one of many courtroom sketches and tried to determine what was taking place.
“Why are you displaying it to us? It’s a sketch,” Stewart mentioned. “Why would anybody analyze a sketch? It’d be like The Final Supper and going, ‘Why do you suppose Jesus seems 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 ft away. I used to be having such a wrestle to attempt to get these eyeballs in,” the sketch artist mentioned.
Stewart mirrored that “in some unspecified time in the future on this trial, one thing essential 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 received’t imagine you when it’s actually fascinating.”
