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Jon Stewart Breaks Down Where Trump Ranks on the Authoritarian Scale
Trump's refusal to return a man illegally deported and desire to deport US citizens, led Jon Stewart to compare Trump to authoritarian counterparts
In a game called “How Authoritarian Is We?,” Stewart dedicated Monday night’s Daily Show monologue to assessing how Trump’s garish decor at the Oval Office, sycophantic cabinet, and dubious physical exam add up alongside the likes of “your Putins, your Xis, your Anna Wintours.” After rolling a news clip of a journalist asking the president if he would be “open” to deporting U.S citizens, Trump replies: “If it’s a homegrown criminal, I have no problem…I’m talking about really bad people. Before wrapping his monologue, Stewart concluded, “So Trump’s got it all, authoritarian-wise: the looks, the attitude, the relentless dissent-crushing — All the ingredients to be a top-tier authoritarian.” However, a reel of Trump’s tariff blunders and stock market chaos, worsening measles outbreak, and DOGE’s haphazard dismantling of the government, prompted Stewart to declare that the president has yet to “bring it home with his ruthless competence.”
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