The Daily Show‘s host, Jon Stewart, criticized the Trump Administration this week, most recently over the “weaponization” slush fund stemming from an IRS settlement.
“We’re in the upside down,” Stewart said on the “Weekly Show” podcast, which is associated with his Comedy Central show. “The Trump administration is a smash and grab on the American public. It is the most corrupt, utterly unsheathed, unleashed on us and they are just grabbing whatever they can and pretending that it’s remuneration for some victimhood they faced that’s all fictitious. It’s nonsense.”
“It’s all a f— you troll. Everything they’re doing is a f— you troll to us,” Stewart added.
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Per The Daily Beast, the White House did not react positively to Stewart’s comments.
A White House spokesperson attacked Stewart as a “talentless hack,” adding that the comedy host “clearly suffers from a severe and debilitating disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain and ruined his life to the point he has to compensate for his embarrassing inadequacies.”
This followed the announcement that the Trump Administration, essentially negotiating with itself, settled Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS, thereby creating a nearly $1.8 billion “slush fund” to those who suffered “weaponization” during the Biden Administration.
“On Monday, President Trump, 79, and the Department of Justice announced a taxpayer-funded $1.776 billion account—in honor of the country’s 250th anniversary—to distribute money to people who claim to have been persecuted by the Biden administration,” the Daily Beast reported.
However, the plan ran into some resistance from Senate Republicans this week, as the Senate left for the month without passing a funding bill for the immigration enforcement.
“Democrats had planed to use the process, which will include a long series of votes on amendments, to force Republicans to take tough votes on things like President Donald Trump’s proposed White House ballroom and a recently announced $1.8 billion ’anti-weaponization’ fund,” CNBC reported.
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