The Day by day Present host Jon Stewart couldn’t assist himself from mocking Elon Musk‘s look at a Donald Trump rally over the weekend, utilizing his present’s opening section on Monday to interrupt down the billionaire’s enthusiasm for the Trump marketing campaign and what Stewart says is hypocrisy round People’ First Modification rights.
“Ooh, darkish MAGA?” Jon Stewart quipped on Monday’s episode of The Day by day Present, taking a swipe at Musk, who confirmed as much as the rally in a black “Make America Nice Once more” hat. “I didn’t realize it got here in flavours! I’m wondering if for the vacations they’ll come out with peppermint bark MAGA. Or pumpkin spice MAGA.”
The Tesla CEO and proprietor of X (previously Twitter) was mocked broadly on-line for hopping round on stage along with his fingers over his head, and Stewart joined within the pile-on along with his personal jokes.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) jumps on stage as he joins former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump throughout a marketing campaign rally on the website of his first assassination try in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024.
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“He’s appearing like a man who gained a radio contest. ‘Oh, I can’t imagine I get to bid on the washer-dryer!’” Stewart stated.
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Jokes apart, Stewart zeroed in on the speech Musk delivered to the Butler, Pa., crowd, which targeted on the First and Second Amendments.
“The opposite aspect needs to remove your freedom of speech,” Musk stated. “You should have free speech in an effort to have democracy. That’s why it’s the First Modification.… The Second Modification is there to make sure that we’ve got the First Modification.”
The remark had Stewart notably rankled.
“The weapons don’t defend our free speech. Our free speech is protected by the consent of the ruled laid out via the Structure. It’s not based mostly on the specter of violence,” he stated.
“Weapons, from what I can inform, appear to principally defend the speech of the individuals holding the gun. It’s a device of intimidation. It’s a device of intimidation and one which I feel is definitely being irresponsibly and recklessly invoked as a result of some individuals in your crowd thought they may have been shadowbanned by Fb.
“I imply, for God’s sakes, you guys are in Butler, Pennsylvania,” Stewart stated. “The entire cause you’re there’s as a result of some f—ing a–gap with an AR-15 tried to completely litigate his imaginative and prescient of this nation’s ‘free speech.’ That’s why you’re there.”
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk listens as Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign occasion on the Butler Farm Present, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa.
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He additionally took offence with Musk applauding Trump’s dedication to free speech, stating that the previous president threatened authorized motion in regards to the upcoming biopic about his life, The Apprentice, after his workforce referred to as the film “election interference.”
“It’s not free speech if solely Trump’s admirers get to do it with out consequence,” Stewart stated. “That’s simply not the way it works. It doesn’t go that method.”
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