Jon Stewart Takes on Trump Over Charlottesville
by EG
Jon Stewart may be missing from late-night television these days but he weighed in on Donald Trump's highly-criticized Charlottesville reaction during a guest appearance at Dave Chappelle's stand-up show in New York City this week.
New York Times culture reporter Sopan Deb was in the audience and transcribed Stewart's comments, sharing them on Twitter.
"It wasn't so much that there were Nazis," said Stewart as he began to speak about the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. "It was really the reaction by certain presidents."
"There are two sides? Motherfucker? Two sides?!" Stewart reportedly exclaimed. "I believe they are called the Allied powers and the Axis powers." He joked that America used to be with the Allied powers, but it seems like Trump signed a treaty that nobody knows about.
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Jon Stewart was the host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.