Jon Stewart Likens Trump’s Harris Attacks Remix to Elton John Song

Jon Stewart, who took a brief hiatus from the public eye, made a triumphant return to the Daily Show on Monday evening. “My name is Jon Stewart, and I am risen from Covid hell,” he humorously declared in his opening monologue. “First-timer, did not care for it.”

Opening the show, Stewart greeted viewers tuning in from X, referencing Donald Trump’s doomed interview with Elon Musk that had occurred just a few hours earlier. He then shifted his focus to Trump’s faltering campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris.

“A month ago, he was basically already the president,” Stewart noted. “He had cheated death, started a new ear accessory trend. Back then, people thought his VP selection was a smart choice. He had it all in the bag, and it was taken away.”

Stewart remarked that Trump was “trying out some good catastrophizing on Harris,” before showing back-to-back clips of the former president recycling his previous Biden-related insults for Harris. These ranged from ominous warnings about World War III to dire predictions about the stock market.

“This is just a remix?” Stewart asked incredulously. “Dude, you can’t just find and replace Biden with Kamala. That’s lazy apocalypse-ing.”

He humorously added, “It’s like when Elton John changed a few words in ‘Candle in the Wind’ and pretended it was always about Princess Diana. It wasn’t! Very disrespectful to Marilyn Monroe.”

Elsewhere, Stewart mocked Trump for seemingly longing for his old rival. “This is sad. It’s like seeing an old man talking to an empty spot on the bench. And then you realize that’s where his wife used to sit,” he joked. “He would give up everything for just one more moment with Crooked Joe.”

Kamala Harris is set to formally accept the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week. Amid an outpouring of support from political leaders and celebrities alike, both Harris and Trump have agreed to a debate scheduled for September 10, to be hosted by ABC. This agreement came after Trump previously tried to back out of the debate and sought a platform on his preferred network, Fox News.

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