Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show,” didn’t hold back when talking about President Donald Trump’s performance 100 days into his second term. He said Trump has completely failed to deliver on the big promises he made to the American people. Stewart pointed out that Trump’s approval rating is the lowest any president has had in the last 80 years. Jokingly, he even said, “Suck it, Herbert Hoover!”—referring to the president many blame for the Great Depression.
One of Trump’s biggest promises was to boost the economy and make it “boom.” But instead, things have gone the other way. Stewart said Trump’s trade wars have hurt the economy, making stocks drop and businesses uncertain. So far, the economic “miracle” Trump promised hasn’t happened.
Stewart also criticized Trump’s idea that he’s a master negotiator. He played clips of Trump saying he knows how to make deals and then pointed out that Trump’s results tell a very different story. Stewart said Trump might actually be the worst negotiator ever, not the best. He made fun of Trump’s weak attempt to influence Russia by tweeting “Vladimir, STOP!” to Russian President Vladimir Putin—something Stewart clearly saw as ineffective and embarrassing.
He didn’t stop there. Stewart said Trump keeps bragging that he has “leverage” in trade deals because America is wealthy. But Stewart hit back by saying that Trump isn’t in charge of that wealth—it belongs to the American people, not him. He called Trump a “temporary leprechaun,” meaning he’s just passing through and has no right to act like he owns the country’s resources.
Stewart explained that the strength of America didn’t come from Trump—it came from 250 years of effort, sacrifice, and hard work by generations of Americans. He warned that Trump is throwing all of that away with his selfish and reckless actions.
He ended by saying that the more Trump acts like a dictator and tries to control everything his way, the more he damages America’s reputation as a proud and free country. Stewart used simple terms that he thought Trump would understand, yelling out: “Donald, STOP!” in all caps, just like one of Trump’s tweets.
The entire monologue was Stewart’s way of warning that Trump isn’t just failing—he’s making things worse by acting like everything is about him, rather than serving the people who put him in office.
