The Daily Show host was deeply unimpressed with Musks performance at his first MAGA rally speech.
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart couldnt help but mock Elon Musk after the influential multi-billionaire and X owner spoke at a rally for Donald Trump on Saturday, going viral for his awkward, enthusiastic jumping as he entered the stage.
Elon Musk has ups, Stewart quipped in his monologue on Monday, before showing the clip of Musk jumping around. When it was over he was laughing along with the audience.
Hes acting like a guy who won a radio contest. Oh, I cant believe I get to bid on the washer-dryer! Stewart said.
He played the moment where Musk described himself as not just MAGA, but dark MAGA.
I didnt know it came in flavors, Stewart joked. I wonder if for the holidays, theyll come out with a peppermint bark MAGA.
On a more serious note, Stewart played part of Musks speech where he claimed that Democrats were the anti-free speech party.
Stewart, who had spent the earlier part of his monologue detailing Trumps desire to sue the creators of the new movie The Apprentice, didnt buy this argument at all.
Its not free speech if only Trumps admirers get to do it without consequence, Stewart said.
The Daily Show host was particularly frustrated with Musks joke about how, The Second Amendment is there to ensure that we have the First Amendment.
Stewart replied, The guns dont protect our free speech. Our free speech is protected by the consent of the governed laid out through the Constitution. Its not based on the threat of violence.
He continued, Guns, from what I can tell, seem to mostly protect the speech of the people holding the gun. Its a tool of intimidation. It is a tool of intimidation and one that I think is actually being irresponsibly and recklessly invoked because some people in your crowd thought they might have been shadowbanned by Facebook.
I mean, for Gods sakes, you guys are in Butler, Pennsylvania, Stewart said. The whole reason youre there is because some fing asshole with an AR-15 tried to permanently litigate his vision of this countrys free speech. Thats why youre there.
