Jon Stewart slammed the Democrats’ silent protests during Donald Trump’s address to Congress, likening their paddle-holding during the speech to “high school theater.”
“Oh, we’re f---ed,” Stewart said on the latest episode of his Weekly Show podcast, taped Wednesday morning. He quipped of Trump’s longest-ever address on Tuesday, “I think President Trump is still speaking. He’s just wrapping up now—just now. He’s giving out some cars,” like Oprah Winfrey. What Stewart found most disappointing about Tuesday’s spectacle, however, was the Democrats’ response.
“All the sweet, sweet Democrats, with their protest hatched in some high school theater workshop,” Stewart said, imagining them saying to each other, “‘Hey, man. I’ve got some magic markers in my locker, why don’t we just write phrases on postcards and while the president is honoring people who’ve lost their children and Gold Star families and giving people West Point commendations, I’m just gonna hold up a handwritten sign that says, I’m sad. This isn’t right.‘”
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Late night hosts—and the internet—have been shredding the Dems for their stunt during the address, which consisted of holding up paddles with phrases like “That’s a lie.” Colbert also mocked the party’s “little paddles,” and joked they’d be more effective at bidding on antiques than saving democracy.
Stewart agreed that the approach was feckless, which led him to the conclusion that “we’re f---ed” if that’s our best line of defense against Trump.
Stewart opined that the Dems’ only strategy as of late is “writing dumb s--t on placards and holding them up.” What the party should be doing, Stewart said, is “outlining a coherent and very clear-eyed view of what is happening and strategies to get back to a more constitutional and free and fair world.”
