Jon Stewart is mocking the way President Trump is treated at his Cabinet meetings, saying the praise he receives is similar to a “Make-A-Wish kid.”
“Whenever any of his biggest supporters are with him, it sounds like they’re saying goodbye,” the “Daily Show” host quipped to the audience during his monologue on Monday.
The Comedy Central show’s host played clips of White House officials commending Trump, including U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff telling the president at an August Cabinet meeting that working for him was “the greatest honor” of his life.
Stewart said, “Once you begin to notice this pattern, you begin to see really the whole vibe around this president is very Make-A-Wish kid.”
The Make-A-Wish Foundation, a nonprofit organization, grants “life-changing wishes” to children with critical illnesses.
“Everyone who shows up to his office tries to make one of his dreams come true,” Stewart said of the attitude towards Trump. Stewart then cued up a clip of Trump being presented with an honorary U.S. Marshals Service badge during an event in the Oval Office last month.
“Look how happy they made him! Gee whiz, mister, a real marshal?” Stewart exclaimed with feigned enthusiasm.
“Now you might be saying to yourself, the Make-A-Wish thing is a little much,” Stewart said.
“A grown man would recognize when people are condescending to him, treating him like a child, tiptoeing around his fragile ego with the idea that this person is so easily manipulated that even the cheapest of gestures could be persuasive,” he added.
“You would f—ing think that,” Stewart, a frequent Trump critic, said to laughs before playing a news clip of FIFA President Gianna Infantino handing the World Cup Trophy to the president in the Oval Office last month.
“It’s for winners only, and since you’re a winner, you can as well touch it,” Infantino said.
“Everything about the treatment of this president screams Make-A-Wish,” Stewart said.
“I’m telling you, though, man, this goes way past trophy fondling and cereal box deputy badges: The people around Trump know that he is a never ending, insatiable black hole of wishes,” Stewart said, noting that several White House officials have floated him for a future Nobel Peace Prize.
But Stewart then shifted his characterization, after denouncing a Monday Supreme Court ruling that lifted a judge’s limits on Los Angeles-area immigration stops based on a person speaking Spanish or working in a certain profession.
“The Supreme Court bent over backwards to grant Trump even his most unconstitutional wishes, like maybe you can arrest people for looking Mexican,” Stewart said.
“What kind of a Make-A-Wish kid wants to nullify the Fourth Amendment?” the “Daily Show” host said.
“I’m beginning to think Trump isn’t a benign, suffering child at all. I’m beginning to think everybody treats Trump like this, not because he’s the Make-A-Wish kid, but because he’s that ‘Twilight Zone’ kid that any time somebody made him mad, he sent them out to the cornfield,” Stewart said, in a reference to a 1961 episode of the classic TV horror series.
“This is where we’re at, America,” Stewart said with a shake of his head, telling the audience that the country is being “held hostage by the fragile ego of a man-baby president.”
