‘The Daily Show’ host Jon Stewart slams Trump for taking ‘jet bribe’

Jon Stewart is having a rough week, thanks to President Donald Trump.

“It was only Friday, that long-ago yesteryear when the Knicks were still up 2-0,” The Daily Show host lamented on Monday’s episode, “Since then, we’ve had the largest bribe ever given to an American president, the seeming surrender of a trade war we started, and the socializing of our pharmaceutical industry. What even is this country? Four months ago, we were a standard-issue democratic constitutional republic. Now we’re some kind of anarcho, klepto, socialist, communist, Silk Road reality show.”

The bribe comment came as Stewart focused on the Boeing jumbo jet the royal family of Qatar is giving Trump to serve as his Air Force One, which has an estimated value of $400 million. After Trump leaves office, the aircraft will be transferred to his future presidential library.

“Qatar is giving us a plane that Trump gets to keep,” Stewart said. “He’s like the reverse Oprah. ‘I get a jet — and that’s it.'”

He also asked, “Why does his library need a jet?”

After a TV report noted the glitzy plane was described as a “palace in the sky” and included nine bathrooms, some with full showers and a bidet, Stewart joked that it was actually a “flying f— palace.”

“I’m not gonna tell Trump how to run his business,” Stewart quipped. “But I would steam the s— out of those carpets.”

He said that at least the plane is from a place that’s “not suspect like Canada or working to undermine us like all of our other democratic allies in Europe.”

Stewart disagreed with Trump’s claim that the plane was “free.”

“It’s not a free jet,” Stewart commented. “That’s the point.”

The Emmy winner noted that the saying “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” is a warning about the obligation that accepting a sandwich puts a person under — and $400 million buys a lot of sandwiches.

The Trump administration has caused him serious stress, Stewart groused.

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“Honestly,” he said, “so much comes at us every day with him. I can’t even sleep, organize thoughts, eat. And he knows — he knows he’s toying with us.”

He pointed to Trump teasing a big announcement last week.

“Should we wear our good pants or the ones we piss in?” Stewart asked, noting later that the announcement ended up being his executive order requesting drugmakers to reduce the cost of prescriptions in the United States.