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Jon Stewart, Please Come Back
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published May 10, 2016
Modified May 10, 2016
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Rebecca Fishbein
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This election cycle has been nothing but a complete sewage dump, and its muck and mire has been all the harder to navigate without Jon Stewart taking it to task night after night. Recently, though, StewBeef's resurfaced to share some thoughts on GOP nominee Donald Trump—like, for instance, that Trump's a "man-baby" and that he'd "vote for Mr. T" over America's #1 Human Troll Doll.
Stewart spoke with David Axelrod at a live taping of "The Axe Files" at the University of Chicago yesterday, bemoaning the presumptive nominee. "I'm not a constitutional scholar, so I can't necessarily say, but are you eligible to run if you are a man-baby or a baby-man?" Stewart said, adding, "He has the physical countenance of a man and a baby's temperament and hands."
Not that Stewart went easy on anyone: "The door is open to an asshole like Donald Trump because the Democrats haven't done enough to show people that government, that can be effective for people, can be efficient for people," he said. "And if you can't do that, then you've lost the right to make that change and someone's going to come in and demagogue you."
As for Hillary Clinton, who's currently the favorite for the Democratic nomination, Stewart described her as "a very bright woman without the courage of her convictions, because I'm not even sure what they are." She's still getting his vote, though. "At this point, I would vote for Mr. T over Donald Trump," he said.
You can watch the whole taping below:
Jon, please stay. I know the cows and piggies need you, but we do too.
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