Late-night hosts recapped a weekend of nationwide protests over the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer as Donald Trump made a social media post referring to himself as the “acting president” of Venezuela.
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart wasted no time expressing outrage from the Daily Show desk on Monday evening, after a particularly dark week for US news. “What the fuck is happening?” he exclaimed. “What the fuck is happening in this country? From Minnesota, to Venezuela, to Iran, to Greenland, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia.
“We are on the Donald Trump Gravitron,” he concluded. “We don’t know what up or down is. We just know it feels like we’re all gonna vomit. Each moment brings another event with cataclysmic implications and consequences, and the guy at the center of it, the instigator, the catalyst of all this chaos and confusion, he’s just out there TGIF-ing it.”
Stewart later broke down the double standards for the administration’s view of law enfor
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