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Jon Stewart says he didn’t expect Monday’s Trump-Musk X live broadcast to be so boring.
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The live broadcast was like “two old guys in a basement talking about how hot each other is,” he said.
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Stewart said that without Biden in the race, Trump’s age is becoming more apparent.
Former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s X Live on Monday was boring, says “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart.
“The one thing I didn’t think I was in it was boring. I was bored as hell,” Stewart said on the latest episode of “The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart” podcast, which aired Thursday.
Stewart mocked the Trump-Musk live broadcast in the opening of the podcast, noting that the interview had inadvertently highlighted Trump’s age. The real estate mogul turned 78 in June.
“But holy shit, was it just like two old guys in a basement talking about how hot each other is? Like, wow,” Stewart said.
Stewart said Trump’s age has become a focus since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month.
“I think he’s going to be the Biden before our eyes in this race,” Stewart said of Trump’s slurred speech on the live broadcast.
“The whole idea was that Biden’s appearance in the debate was so shocking to the functionality system where you look at the guy and go, ‘Oh shit.’ Like this is a real decline in a way that we didn’t expect, but it also obscured what’s clearly going on with Trump,” he continued.
And now that Trump is no longer running against Biden, he will not be able to present himself as a relatively younger, energetic candidate, Stewart said on his podcast.
“When you take that out of the equation, you just have a much sharper focus on his decline. And then you listen to those Twitter statuses. And again, like he’s always been a little bit flamboyant, but holy shit,” he said.
This isn’t the first time Stewart has mentioned Trump’s age while weighing in on the presidential race.
During an appearance at the “Netflix Is A Joke” festival in May, Stewart said putting Biden and Trump on the ballot was a mistake.
“Why do we allow this? And now we have a president who is the two oldest people to ever run for president,” Stewart told the audience, per The Hollywood Reporter .
Then in June, Stewart said on “The Daily Show” that the Biden-Trump rematch was turning into two candidates taking potshots at the other’s age.
“I think the election basically boiled down to each candidate blaming the other for the soup where the brains should be,” Stewart said.
Despite this, Trump, now vying with 59-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency in November, does not consider himself old.
Last month on Truth Social, the GOP candidate said he thought Harris was voting poorly “against a good and brilliant young man.”
Representatives for Trump and Musk did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment sent outside normal business hours.
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