Jon Stewart led Monday’s episode of The Day by day Present with Donald Trump’s hush cash trial and dinged information networks for the 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 capability to cowl Donald Trump in a accountable means. A activity they’ve acknowledged they’ve carried out poorly prior to now,” Stewart mentioned earlier than a supercut of the media claiming they’d discovered their lesson on 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 study that studying curves are for pussies.”
One other supercut of the foremost 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 essentially the most banal of particulars, maybe that will 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 way of NYC site visitors.
“Critically, are we going to comply with this man to courtroom each f***ing day? Are you attempting 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 among his commentators to tell viewers {that a} new photograph of Trump contained in the courtroom was on display. In one other second, Tapper confirmed one of many courtroom sketches and tried to determine what was occurring.
“Why are you displaying it to us? It’s a sketch,” Stewart mentioned. “Why would anybody analyze a sketch? It’d be like taking a look at The Final Supper and going, ‘Why do you suppose Jesus appears to be like 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 try to get these eyeballs in,” the sketch artist mentioned.
