Jon Stewart, wearing a fine dead animal atop his head and the reddest (and longest) of ties in the name of our current White House occupier, dropped in on The Late Show on Tuesday night to sound the alarm on what's at stake in the months and years ahead. Stewart came prepared with jokes and an admirable Trump impression, but nicely tucked in some heed-worthy truth for those paying attention.
"[Trump]'s pulled out of trade deals, approved the border wall, revived the Keystone pipeline," Stephen Colbert told the audience of the reality TV blemish's first days in office. "I just gotta imagine, though, after 10 days and 20 orders, he's gotta be done. Right? There can't be anymore of these executive orders." And that's when Stewart waltzed in:
"There's more," Stewart said before declaring "bullshit" the new official language of the United States and revealing a litany of additional executive orders.
"We have never faced this before," Stewart, sporadically adopting a Trump impression, added. "Purposeful, vindictive chaos. But perhaps therein lies the saving grace of my, Donald J. Trump's, presidency."
No singular action of resistance, Stewart's Trump promised, will be enough. "All actions will be necessary," he said. "And if we do not allow Donald J. Trump to exhaust our fight and somehow come through this presidency calamity-less and constitutionally partially intact, then I, Donald J. Trump, will have demonstrated the greatness of America. Just not the way I thought I was gonna."
