‘Motherf**ker! How dare you? Jon Stewart’s meltdown over Trump’s doll interview

Under the guise of comedy, Jon Stewart endeavored to frame President Donald Trump as the Grinch following recent remarks about the number of dolls a child needs.

“Motherf*cker! How dare you?”

While the Democratic Party, overly invested as it is in defending criminal illegal aliens, has generally overlooked an opportunity to malign the president, Monday’s installment of “The Daily Show” came fully prepared to attempt to ridicule the commander-in-chief as out of touch.

Specifically, host Jon Stewart took soundbites of Trump’s latest “Meet the Press” interview to suggest he was depriving children after NBC News’ Kristen Welker confronted the president over the impact of tariffs.

“Look, I’m trying very hard in this new Trump flood-the-zone media ecosystem strategy to not get too high or low; to not take the bait; to find things in my life that give me pleasure or peace,” asserted the comedian as he led into his setup. “For instance, quick story, I have a niece, 11 years old, who loves dolls. I was gonna get her 20 or 30 of them for her birthday, just to see the joy of a child. You can’t put a price tag on that, it gives me great solace. Anyway, like I said, I’m not trying to take these interviews personally.”

Stewart then aired a clip of the GOP leader saying, “I don’t think a beautiful, baby girl — that’s 11 years old — needs to have 30 dolls.”

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“First of all, I don’t think we consider 11-year-olds ‘baby girls.’ Second of all, you don’t know what she needs! She’s been through a lot this year! How many dolls would you get her? What is the appropriate number of dolls to get a beautiful, baby 11-year-old girl, Mr. President?” posited the host.

He went on to add, “I’ll just tell her the president of the United States said no. You know what? Doesn’t matter. Dolls are not her only happy place. She also loves taking standardized tests. No, it’s true. Very erudite. So I was thinking of getting her this wonderful ‘Baby’s First SAT’ kit. It has all the Scantron sheets and around 250 No. 2 pencils. She’s gonna go crazy. She is gonna love it.”

To that, Stewart shared another clip of Trump saying, “They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”

“Motherf*cker! How dare you?” reacted the host, who hadn’t bothered with context, before wondering if the president was more like the Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge, or an “evil step-monster.”

In the interview, the president said, “I don’t think that a beautiful baby girl needs — that’s 11 years old — needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable. We had a trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.”

When Welker tried to suggest the president was teasing a scenario with “empty store shelves,” he disputed, “No. No, I’m not saying that. I’m just saying they don’t need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”

Also left out of Stewart’s coverage of the Trump interview was the president’s follow-up statement where he pushed back on Welker’s claim that prices had gone up by asserting, “Prices are down on groceries. Prices are down for oil. Prices are down for all energy. Prices are down at tremendous numbers for gasoline. And let me tell you, when you have — the big thing, what [Biden] did, he spent like a stupid person, which he was. But he acted like a very stupid person. And that was bad for inflation.”

Trump contrasted $1.98 gas in some places to states that had exceeded $4 or more during the Biden administration, before also pointing out the change in mortgage rates. Of course, while the president was calling out excess, Stewart advanced an idea that the man was living with a “depression-era view” of what kids like more than five years after the left had disregarded then-former Vice President Joe Biden’s suggestion for voters to “have the record player on at night.”

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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