Jon Stewart weighed in on MAGA turning the shooting outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner into an “assault on Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes,” calling it the “land of absurdity we find ourselves in.”
“I don’t know about you. I am sure you’re all fucking exhausted by all this,” said Stewart in a recent episode of “The Weekly Show” podcast.
His reaction arrived after President Donald Trump and Melania Trump, seemingly sparked by clips shared in right-wing social media circles, tried to pressure ABC to fire Kimmel after the host quipped that the first lady was glowing “like an expectant widow” in a show filmed days before the shooting.
Kimmel, who was suspended by ABC following comments on the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination last year, hasn’t backed down to Trump despite the attacks.
On his “Weekly Show” podcast, Stewart emphasized that there is still “hope” for the U.S. despite Trump’s attempts to get Kimmel off the air.
