On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart broke down Donald Trump’s trip to Scotland and his defense against the media’s endless tirade of Jeffrey Epstein questions.
Stewart opened his monologue by joking that Trump needed to take a trip over to Scotland not only to close his EU trade deal, but also to put “an ocean’s distance between himself and the Epstein scandal.”
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The late-night pundit then immediately cut to a clip of a Scottish reporter asking Trump, “Mr. President, was part of the rush to get this deal done to knock the Jeffrey Epstein story out?”
“He’s all like, ‘How did you even hear about… I thought you guys just got “Baywatch” like three months ago?’” Stewart said. “‘Doesn’t anybody here have a question about this trade deal sinking both of our economies with tariffs?’”
Stewart then went over Trump’s rebuttals, which included lines of reasoning like, “Those files were run by the worst scum on Earth. If they had something, they would have released [it]. Now, they can easily put something in the files that’s a phony.”
“It’s simple,” Stewart said. “‘If I, Donald Trump, was in the files, they would have released it. So clearly, I’m not in the files. But of course, I’m clearly in the files, which makes them phony.’”
Another defense from Trump included, “I never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn it down.”
“The privilege? The fuck?” Stewart said. “‘Hey Donald, you want to go to the island this weekend?’ ‘Well, first of all, Jeffrey, thank you for thinking of me. Unfortunately, that’s the weekend that the teen pageant that I bought is installing the indoor security locker room cameras.’”
Watch the entire segment below.
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