Jon Stewart: We ‘Dodged a Catastrophe’ With Trump Shooting
“What a terrible fucking week,” Jon Stewart opined at the start of his Daily Show monologue on Tuesday. It was his first show back since the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump and Stewart had some strong thoughts on what happened.
Particularly, he focused on the online chaos in the shooting’s immediate aftermath, when people were still speculating (and spreading misinformation) on what happened and who did it.
“It’s this pattern I feel like we now have in the country, when we hear about a horrific event,” Stewart said. “You’re on pins and needles in this sort of reverse demographic lottery, to make sure that the psychopathic shooter doesn’t belong to one of your teams. You know, you just sit there going, ‘Please, no Democrats, no liberals, no progressives…’”