Jon Stewart may have stepped away from his celebrated tenure as host of “The Daily Show” this summer, but that hasn’t stopped him from savaging politicians for their hypocrisy and hubris.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Stewart singled out 2016 GOP front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday for some hard-hitting ridicule during a performance at a Stand Up for Heroes benefit event in New York City.
“When I was doing the program, we liked to make jokes about him, because he’s hilarious and easily mockable,” said Stewart, according to EW. “We would mock him with things such as, ‘He looks like a bewigged boiled ham,’ or something like that. So he would tweet in the middle of the night, ‘Jon Stewart’s real name is Leibowitz. He’s a Jew. Why does he run away from his heritage?’ You know, because that’s what I think most presidents would do. I remember Lincoln used to drunk tweet: ‘Hey, emancipate this, you f—!’”
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Trump’s very active social media presence has been a source of fascination and criticism for years, most recently serving as inspiration for a “Saturday Night Live” sketch. The real estate mogul has slammed Stewart several times in the past, highlighting the comic’s decision to change his name (which Stewart has been very forthcoming about) and his talent. “I promise you that I’m much smarter than Jonathan Leibowitz – I mean Jon Stewart @TheDailyShow. Who, by the way, is totally overrated,” Trump tweeted in 2013. Earlier this year Trump denied ever attacking Stewart for his “phony last name” on Twitter.
In July, not long after Trump announced his candidacy for president, Stewart said during an episode of “The Daily Show” that the only reason the ex-reality television star was getting traction was “because of the terrible things he was willing to say about Obama.”
“Trump has no control over the projectile vomit of d–kishness that comes out of his mouth every time he opens it. It was inevitable some of his word puke was gonna get on you,” Stewart said at the time. At the Stand Up for Heroes event on Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Stewart remained apoplectic about the possibility of a Trump White House.
“Are we really doing this Donald Trump thing? We’re really doing that as a country?” Stewart said. “He’s f—-d. I like to put my name in giant letters on everything I own as much as the next guy, but the only other people that do that are like 8-year-olds going to camp.”
He later said the Trump candidacy was “like an Internet comment troll ran for president.”








