Jon Stewart calls Donald Trump a 'man-baby,' says he'd rather vote for Mr. T


Jon Stewart is holding nothing back when it comes to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the rough-and-tumble race to the White House.
On Monday, the former Daily Show host spoke with David Axelrod at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics for his podcast, The Axe Files. He quickly started in on Trump, asking: "I'm not a constitutional scholar, so I can't necessarily say, but are you eligible to run if you are a man-baby, or a baby-man? He has the physical countenance of a man and a baby's temperament and hands." That was Stewart being nice; he went on to call Trump an "unrepentant, narcissistic asshole," and made fun of his "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan. "When was America great?" Stewart asked. "What is this time that he speaks of? '81 to '82? Like, what are we talking about? And who took your country away from you?"
Stewart saved some of his venom for the 24-hour news networks (for featuring "the most conflict-oriented, the most extreme voices"), the Republican Party (their "sole purpose is to freeze the government and to not fix any of the problems that are associated with it"), and Hillary Clinton (a "very bright woman without the courage of her convictions, because I'm not even sure what they are"). Stewart added that he wasn't saying Clinton is not preferable to Trump, and "at this point, I would vote for Mr. T over Donald Trump."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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