{"id":500937,"date":"2026-03-03T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500937\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:25:07","slug":"jon-stewart-reacts-to-trumps-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500937\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Reacts to Trump’s Iran War"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJon Stewart<\/a> opened The Daily Show<\/a> on Monday by launching into criticism of President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s attack on Iran.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring his opening monologue (below), the comedy host mocked what the show dubbed \u201cMess O\u2019Potamia: America\u2019s Next Top Muddle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLetting the f-bombs fly, Stewart laid into Trump\u2019s inconsistent communication and lack of congressional approval on the issue. <\/p>\n

\n\tAt one point, Stewart played clips that aired during the 2024 election of some on the right saying that Trump would be a \u201cpeace through strength\u201d president who would keep the United States out of war. This was followed by clips collected since Friday of Trump supporters praising the strike.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHow quickly the right has gone from \u2018peace through strength\u2019 to \u2018peace through war,’\u201d Stewart said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re all just along for the ride in a war with no clear purpose, no end in sight, all at the whims of Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart mocked\u2026 <\/p>\n

\n\t\u2014 The name \u201cOperation Epic Fury\u201d: \u201cEpic Fury?! Did the Paul Brothers launch another energy drink?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2014 On Trump\u2019s video announcing the attack from Mar-a-Lago while wearing a white baseball cap: \u201cThis is how we\u2019re doing this? Mar-a-Lago basement? No lighting? You don\u2019t even have one of those influencer halo lights? And this is what we\u2019re wearing? Blazer, no tie, shirt unbuttoned? Looking more like the father of the bride settling up with the caterer? Not to nitpick, obviously, but baseball hat? We\u2019re going with a baseball hat for a war of choice? Oh, I\u2019m gonna go down and make my war announcement. \u2018Don\u2019t forget the HAT I got you that\u2019s bigger than your head.\u2019 \u2026 We should at least be thankful that the hat is forwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2014 On 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei being killed in a U.S. airstrike: \u201cI doubt he\u2019s anywhere near a location that obvious, given the advance surveillance he\u2019s been under \u2026 He stayed in his house?! Old people are so fucking stubborn. America apparently had to start an entire war to kill an 86-year-old in ill health and not wait, I don\u2019t know, three weeks to let saturated fat do its thing.\u201d (Stewart also ripped into sympathetic studio audience noises for Khamenei \u2014 \u201cSorry, am I going too hard on Khamenei? A murderous dictator \u2026 who mowed down his own people?\u201d)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2014 On the House being set to vote on the war powers resolution on Thursday: \u201cThis coming Thursday?! The war already fucking happened! This is Trump\u2019s whole presidency, he does whatever the fuck he wants and then a few days later, Congress is like: \u2018Excuse me! Roll your window down. Excuse me, sir?! You\u2019re not allowed to knock down the East Wing without a permit from the homeowner\u2019s association. We\u2019re going to let it slide this time.\u2019 The U.S. Congress is like male nipples. Why do you exist? What do you do? Nothing! You do nothing!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2014 On Iran launching strikes at other countries in the Middle East: \u201cSo let me get this straight: America and Israel attack Iran. And Iran\u2019s answer is to just attack everybody. You know, having been in a bar fight, I\u2019m pretty sure the worst thing to do in a two-on-one beat down is to slap everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2014 After showing a clip of Trump rambling about random topics during a press briefing about the war: \u201cI can\u2019t believe our bombs are now smarter than our President.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Friday, Trump launched \u201cOperation Epic Fury\u201d targeting Iran to destroy its missile production, navy and nuclear capabilities following\u00a0alleged \u201cimminent threats.\u201d The conflict has resulted in the death of many senior Iranian officials, significant infrastructure damage in Iran and four U.S. service member deaths. Trump has said the campaign could last weeks and hasn\u2019t ruled out the use of U.S. troops on the ground.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show on Monday by launching into criticism of President Donald Trump\u2018s attack on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12,88,9609,52846,9610],"class_list":["post-500937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-jon-stewart","tag-politcs","tag-the-daily-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}