{"id":223285,"date":"2026-01-06T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/223285\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:23:07","slug":"jon-stewart-seth-meyers-on-maduro-and-trumps-plan-for-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/223285\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers on Maduro and Trump’s Plan for Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLate night hosts, including Jon Stewart<\/a> and Seth Meyers<\/a>, didn\u2019t waste any time before sharing their honest thoughts about the military operation over the weekend that captured Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro <\/a>and removed him from the country, as well as President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0saying the United States would run Venezuela at least temporarily.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart, host of The Daily Show<\/a>, kicked off Monday\u2019s show, joking about how \u201cPresident Trump and an elite team of Delta Force special operators removed a dangerous foreign dictator from power.\u201d However, before getting to a photo of Maduro, he flipped through photos of other controversial world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un. The host also jokinly threw in a photo of Vecna, the villain in Netflix\u2019s Stranger Things.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo, I\u2019m talking about the now former president of Venezuela, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who was reverse-ICE\u2019d and imported,\u201d Stewart clarified. \u201cHe was actually imported to a jail in Brooklyn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNow, obviously, this is actually a very fraught moment for the world. It is highly unusual for any government, any sovereign nation, to violate the airspace and territory of another sovereign nation and hit the grab and go on their president,\u201d The Daily Show continued, adding, \u201cLook, no one knows how this operation is going to work out. But based on the United States\u2019 track record, my guess is we\u2019re going to be really happy about this for a couple of weeks. And then 30 years from now, there will be a Venezuelan leftist revolution, and the new government will point to this moment as the reason our embassy there is on fire. And it will absolutely ruin a Democrats\u2019 presidency. Generally, that\u2019s how this shit works. And remember, the reason MAGA was so high on Donald Trump was that he was the guy who wasn\u2019t going to get involved with this kind of shit anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLater, Stewart was losing his mind over how candid Trump was when speaking with reporters over the weekend about one of the seemingly main reasons for the operation to capture Maduro and take over Venezuela. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground. We need total access. We need access to the oil,\u201d Trump said in clips that The Daily Show played during the show.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOil \u2014 precious commodity, certainly \u2014 but not the reason a country, formed 250 years ago on the ideas of liberty and self-determination, would go into a country and snatch a man at night. There must be a slightly more noble pretense,\u201d Stewart said before yelling, \u201cIs this your first war? I mean, what the fuck?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe host added, \u201cWe can\u2019t even be conspiracy theorists now. I think they did it for the oil. Yeah, no, I did it for the oil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart also pointed out the precedent this sets for future generations in America, \u201cthat if we need shit and it\u2019s not too far away, we are going to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe people I feel sorry for are the Trump defendants, the defenders, the sycophants, who haven\u2019t received the memo that we no longer have to frame our adventurism in the ideals of our great country,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cLook, this is all exhausting and exposes the Gulf of America \u2014 not the body of water. The real Gulf of America is the gap between the high aspirations that embody the founding of this country and the thuggish gangsterism that this crew thinks makes us great again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLate Night\u2018s Meyers also centered Monday\u2019s \u201cCloser Look\u201d segment on the whole Venezuela situation.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDonald Trump made history this weekend by becoming the first-ever winner of the FIFA Peace Prize to bomb another country and kidnap its leader,\u201d he quipped at the beginning. \u201cThe most stunning turn of events since Hannibal Lecter\u2019s high school classmates voted him least likely to eat your liver.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile some Republicans in recent days have attempted to avoid talking about the real reason for the military operation, Meyers later played a video montage of Trump and those in his administration repeatedly talking about the vast oil reserves that Venezuela has.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDamn it, I just wish there were clues,\u201d the host joked. \u201cIt\u2019s really just amazing how Trump just undercuts everyone around him and confesses the truth. He\u2019s got all his little minions on TV saying this is really about the drug trade or human rights, and then Trump immediately throws them under the bus by saying the word oil over and over again, like the uncle no one listens to on Family Feud.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeyers also played what he called \u201cthe hypocrisy package,\u201d highlighting Trump\u2019s lies about being anti-war, as the president has previously said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to stop the reckless and costly policy of regime change overseas.\u201d But then proceeded to capture Maduro over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI still can\u2019t actually believe anyone thought Trump was telling the truth about being anti-war,\u201d the Late Night host added. \u201cYou really thought Donald Trump, the most thin-skinned, impulsive man on the planet, would suddenly discover the concept of restraint when he gained control of the world\u2019s most powerful military. Giving Donald Trump control of the U.S. military is like giving the cast of Real Housewives an open bar and a one free slap coupon. There\u2019s gonna be a lot of fighting, a lot of crying, and a lot of really bad dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late night hosts, including Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers, didn\u2019t waste any time before sharing their honest thoughts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,22036,20773,27914,22075,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-223285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-jon-stewart","12":"tag-late-night-with-seth-meyers","13":"tag-seth-meyers","14":"tag-the-daily-show","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}