{"id":192643,"date":"2025-06-17T21:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192643\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T21:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:03:17","slug":"jon-stewart-on-response-to-minnesota-shootings-what-are-we-doing-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192643\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart on response to Minnesota shootings: \u2018What are we doing?\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts respond to Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s underwhelming military parade<\/a>, the record-breaking No Kings protests<\/a> and Republican disinformation<\/a> around the shooting of a Minnesota politician<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jon Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jon Stewart<\/a> arrived at his Monday evening perch on the Daily Show reeling from an eventful weekend in US news. \u201cLet me just say this to start off: Fuck! Just to start off,\u201d he said. \u201cThis weekend \u2013 terrible! Again. I\u2019m so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewart started first with Israel\u2019s military strike of nuclear facilities in Iran, a conflict Trump teased that the US military would join, after his administration deployed troops in Los Angeles to battle peaceful protests of his immigration raids.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only problem with their posture \u2013 that I see with it \u2013 is their reluctance to commit the American military to fighting drawn-out and often pointless wars doesn\u2019t seem to extend to America,\u201d Stewart said of Republicans reticent to support Trump\u2019s foreign policy. \u201cThe Maga mindset appears to be: we didn\u2019t vote for foreign wars, we voted for civil war.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are looking for any pretense to stick their robot dogs on Democrats,\u201d he said of Republicans supporting the use of military force on Los Angeles protesters, \u201cand the strategy that they\u2019re using is to inflate the threat that this country now faces, to so rile up their base as to make the left in this country \u2013 represented by over 75 million votes in the past presidential election \u2013 as a legitimate military target for the United States of America. It\u2019s a strategy that\u2019s been used before to gin up military conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewart then pivoted to the horrific shooting of Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota Democratic state representative, and her husband, Mark, in their home. The suspect, Vance Boelter, had a hit list of Democratic representatives and appears to have espoused far-right views, but Stewart wasn\u2019t interested.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t give a fuck why this person did it,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t care whose team he\u2019s on, I don\u2019t care if he listens to NPR or Fox News, I don\u2019t give a flying fuck. What blows my mind is our resignation in the aftermath of this nonsense,\u201d he said, referring to a campaign of misinformation<\/a> and outright apathy in the wake of political violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re willing to do things about other issues,\u201d he continued. \u201cWhy are they attacking Los Angeles right now? Why is the right so willing to tear our cities apart in this moment?\u201d Stewart then played a series of clips of Republican lawmakers claiming that any violence by any immigrant demanded a firm response.<\/p>\n

\u201cViolence should never be accepted, it should never be tolerated \u2013 but that\u2019s for their issue,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the wake of Sandy Hook, and Uvalde, and Parkland, and El Paso, and Lewiston, and Aurora, and Buffalo, and Boulder, and Binghamton, and Highland Park, and Monterey Park, and San Bernardino, and San Jose, and San Francisco, and the Pulse nightclub, and the Colorado Springs nightclub, and the Little Rock nightclub, and the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, and the Ned Peppers Bar in Dayton, and the Waffle House in Nashville, and Virginia Tech, and UVA, and MSU, and UCSB, and FSU, and NIU, and SMC, and the Sutherland Springs Church, and the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, and the Living Church of God, and the Tree of Life Synagogue, and the Allen Mall, and the Westroads Mall, and Fort Hood, and Lockheed Martin, and \u2013 what are we fucking doing? What are we doing? By the way, that is a wildly incomplete list. We kept it to the last 25 years, and it\u2019s still not everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cWhy is it when a foreigner, or someone that shouldn\u2019t be here, kills one of us, we\u2019re gonna put $150bn into border security, we\u2019re gonna militarize our cities, we\u2019re gonna spend trillions to bomb and destabilize foreign countries overseas, we\u2019re gonna ban people from random countries from ever fucking visiting here, we\u2019re gonna take our shoes off at the airport forever \u2013 but when we do it to ourselves, nothing?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it that the only acceptable deaths are those that are made in America?\u201d he concluded. \u201cOur only response now is to tally-up the psycho scoreboard on whose side the perp belongs to?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOn Saturday, Trump had his much-anticipated stupid sweet 16, disguised as a tribute to the US Army he bone-spurred his way out of,\u201d said Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, referring to Trump\u2019s military parade. The $50m event turned out to be \u201cboring\u201d \u2013 \u201cit was basically the $50m version of when a five-year-old shows you every car in his Hot Wheels collection\u201d.<\/p>\n

The parade boasted corporate sponsors including UFC, a crypto company and Scott\u2019s Miracle-Gro, \u201cwhich is the product Trump uses on his head\u201d, Kimmel quipped. \u201cThere were flyovers, there were combovers, the whole thing!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter all this talk that this wasn\u2019t a birthday party for him, it kind of seemed like a birthday party for him,\u201d Kimmel continued before a clip of the muted crowd singing \u201chappy birthday\u201d to Trump. He then cut to a shot of Trump appearing to doze off during the firework show. \u201cThere\u2019s sleepy Don taking it all in,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fairness, that\u2019s as close as he gets to being able to sleep with his wife, so he took the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe turnout was much lower than expected, but as Trump would say, there were record-breaking crowds,\u201d he added. \u201cThe bleachers, as you can see, are almost empty. The crowds were sparse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen Colbert<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the Late Show, Stephen Colbert<\/a> celebrated Father\u2019s Day, because \u201cDaddy got just what he wanted: no one came to Trump\u2019s big stupid birthday parade.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House claims that 250,000 people attended, though Colbert was skeptical. \u201cApparently a quarter of a million people looks like this,\u201d he said over a photo of a sparsely populated lawn. \u201cThey must be really good at hide and seek. Maga stands for Make America Grass Again, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was so sparsely attended that these poor troops were forced to march past empty bleachers,\u201d he added before a clip of squeaky tanks rolling by mostly empty stands. \u201cWe may have one WWII, but this weekend we lost the battle with WD-40,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looked like no one was having a good time at this thing, not even Donald Trump,\u201d he said before a photo of Trump scowling as he watched the procession. \u201cThat is one sad sack of potatoes,\u201d Colbert laughed.<\/p>\n

Seth Meyers<\/strong><\/p>\n

And on Late Night, Seth Meyers<\/a> also mocked Trump\u2019s poorly attended birthday parade, where every administration official in attendance looked bored. At one point, the camera captured Marco Rubio yawning.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything about this soggy, poorly attended birthday parade just made Trump look more pathetic,\u201d said Meyers. \u201cThe special guests were bored out of their minds, the bleachers were emptier than a football game at Oberlin, the lawn had enough empty space for a game of ultimate frisbee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut while deflated Trump was watching robot dogs walk by sparse crowds for his birthday, millions of Americans were fanning out across the country for historic nationwide protests,\u201d he added, referring to the 5 million or so Americans who showed up for the \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests in rebuke of Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur system of government is in dire straits, but the massive outpouring of energy across the country was proof that Americans will not easily give up democracy,\u201d said Meyers. \u201cThis was, by all accounts, one of the largest protests in American history. Compare that to the president who, despite all his power and wealth, looked like a guy who was using his crappy golden phone to call roadside assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts respond to Donald Trump\u2019s underwhelming military parade, the record-breaking No Kings protests and Republican disinformation around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114700734047062728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}