Jon Stewart apparently spent his two-week break from The Daily Show brushing up on his already impressive Donald Trump impersonation. He broke it out with unrestrained glee on Monday's show. Yes, lots of important news happened during his 14-day hiatus, Stewart said, but Trump is "the patron saint of topical comedians who are just running out the clock." He begged Trump, "don't flame out now, I got to squeeze three more weeks of this."
But Trump's longevity isn't up to Stewart, or perhaps even Trump himself; it's up to the Republic voters, who rank Trump as their top 2016 presidential pick in a recent poll. So Stewart addressed Republicans, apparently under the impression that they (like Trump's fellow GOP candidates) are unhappy with his comments that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is not a war hero:
Here's the thing I don't get: Why is anyone acting surprised about Trump? The only reason you liked this guy in the first place is because of the terrible things he was willing to say about Obama. But Trump has no control over the projectile vomit of dickishness that comes out of his mouth every time he opens it — it was inevitable some of his word puke was going to get on you. [Stewart]
The GOP went through something similar with Sarah Palin, Stewart said, "only this time the chatroom troll emoji you've conjured has $10 billion of its own money." You can watch Stewart do his spot-on Trump, propose a new Jewish holiday based on the candidate, and, of course, make fun of Trump's hair in the video below. Peter Weber
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