Jon Stewart criticised the ongoing missile strikes against Iran coordinated by Israel and the U.S., which killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei over the weekend. The late-night host joked he needed to bring back a “20-year recurring segment” titled “Mess O’Potamia.”
“America, apparently, had to start an entire war to kill an 86-year-old man in ill health and not wait — I don’t know — three weeks to let saturated fat do its thing,” Stewart quipped.
Stewart explained how Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been delighted to start a war with Iran, a sentiment that was shared by Donald Trump. He played a clip of Trump, wearing a USA hat, announcing the operations against Iran.
“This is how we’re doing this?” Stewart asked. “2 a.m. Mar-a-Lago basement. No lighting? You don’t have one of those influencer halo things? And this is what we’re wearing? Blazer, no tie, shirt unbuttoned? Looking more like the father of the bride settling up with the caterer? Is that what we’re doing? And not to nitpick, obviously, but baseball hat? We’re going with a baseball hat for a war of choice?”
He added, “You could have done this at the White House in a suit in the ‘I killed Bin Laden hallway.’ But no. You decided to go with vacation house, trucker hat, guy who’s about to make an announcement at his club’s member-member tournament. It’s classy.”
Stewart then commented on Trump’s name for the operation against Iran, Operation Epic Fury. “Is this a war or did the Paul brothers launch another energy drink?” he said. “Stop letting the millennials name shit.”
Following Iran has attacked multiple bases in numerous locations, including Iraq and Kuwait, since the initial attack.
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“America and Israel attack Iran,” Stewart responded. “And Iran’s answer is to just fucking attack everybody. You know, having been in a bar fight or two in my life, I’m pretty sure the worst thing you can do during a two-on-one beatdown is slap everyone else.”
Stewart enlisted Jordan Klepper, appearing “live from Istanbul,” to learn more about the situation. “Feels so good to be back at war!” Klepper reported. “Those four weeks since Venezuela were so boring. Oh, man, things were so dull, we had to pretend to care about hockey. Dark stuff.”
The host concluded his monologue by noting, “I can’t believe it. Our bombs are now smarter than our president… How quickly the right has gone from peace through strength to peace through war. And we’re all just along for the ride, in a war with no clear purpose, no end in sight. It’s all just at the whims of Donald Trump.”
From Rolling Stone US
