Late-night hosts react to White House press dinner shooting as Trump and Melania call for Kimmel to be fired
Late-night hosts responded to the White House correspondents’ dinner shooting and Donald and Melania Trump’s attempts to blame political violence on Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes.
Jon Stewart resumed his Monday night chair at the Daily Show less than two days after the shocking attack at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night, which resulted in the arrest of one man and, thankfully, no injuries. “It was supposed to be an evening of fun and merriment until, like most things in America, it was interrupted by gunfire,” Stewart said. “This is why we can’t have nice things. And to be perfectly frank, it’s not even a nice thing. Nobody wanted this fucking dinner in the first place!
“We’re so fucked in this country right now,” he added. “We can’t even pull off a dinner that shouldn’t have existed in the first place. Hey, let’s celebrate the first amendment with an administration that’s doing everything it can do to destroy it.”
Stewart went on to replay some footage from the chaos during the attack, with clips of people grabbing bottles of alcohol for themselves and one man continuing to calmly eat his salad as Secret Service agents rushed to evacuate the president and thwart the attacker. “There have been times I have been very worried about artificial intelligence and whether or not it’s going to replace us,” Stewart responded. “And then there are other times where I think, ‘Hey, AI, can you start Monday?’”
