Jon Stewart has cheekily interpreted President Donald Trump’s since-deleted social media post depicting himself as Jesus Christ ― or someone very much like Christ, anyway ― as a personal tribute.
On Monday’s installment of “The Daily Show,” Stewart pointed out that he bears a striking resemblance to the bedridden patient appearing to be “healed” by Trump in the controversial image.
“Am I OK? What the fuck?” he quipped. “Look, I know I don’t have the vigor and spunk of my MTV days, but I didn’t know we were here already. I didn’t realize my look had reached leper territory.”
He went on to note: “From the picture, it looks like it was touch-and-go with me for a while. But, thank God, in my time of need, I was surrounded by family.”
Watch a clip from Monday’s “Daily Show” below. Stewart’s remarks on the controversial image begin around the 3:38 mark.
