Jon Stewart sadly pauses Trump mockery to nail GOP on uninformed Iran naysaying

Jon Stewart has been spending a lot of time mocking Donald Trump, and he feels a little guilty about it. Trump's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is entertaining, he said on Wednesday's Daily Show, "but much like incessant masturbation, eventually you feel a deep sense of shame." His show's "incessant Trump-gazing has caused us to miss important non-Trump news," Stewart confessed. And that brought him to the Iran nuclear deal.

GOP presidential candidates are uniformly opposed to the deal, but at least some of the most vocal critics haven't read the 100-plus page accord yet. "You didn't even read the deal?" Stewart said. "Basically, you're treating this critical international accord like some kind of bizarro iTunes user agreement — Blah blah blah blah just skip all the details, go to the bottom, and click 'Disagree.'" He focuses his mockery on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — conveniently, two senators he already has impersonations of — and he had a small Trump relapse, too.

But Stewart isn't only shooting spitballs at the GOP (and Trump), he's also offering an alternative solution — inspired by Greece, Germany, and Goldman Sachs — for beating Iran into submission, just as the GOP demands: "We don't need to isolate Iran — we need to hit them with a loan strike." That, or give them diabetes and heart disease. Watch below. Peter Weber

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