By Katherine Tinsley
2:01am PDT, Apr 9, 2025
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In a Truth Social post, Donald Trump urged fans not to worry about his new tariffs.
"The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don't be Weak! Don't be Stupid! Don't be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result," he wrote on Monday, April 7.
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Jon Stewart was appalled by Donald Trump's social media antics.
"Panican?" Stewart said on The Daily Show after reading the president's social media post. "The genius who gave us classics like 'Sleepy Joe' and 'Crooked Hillary' just s**** out 'you're a Panican'?"
"How about Hysterocrats? Repussicans? How about Cryontologists?" he asked.
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Jon Stewart used Donald Trump's behavior as an opportunity to criticize the additional tax on foreign goods.
"Did the overseas factory you had been sourcing your nicknames from get shut down during the tariff war?" Stewart asked.
"Your economic policy has the same tagline as season three of Squid Game?" Stewart joked. "It's supposed to make us feel better?"
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While business professionals worried about the value of their companies, Donald Trump enjoyed a game of golf in Florida.
"In case you didn't get the point that he doesn't give a f***, he spent the weekend showing, not telling," Stewart said. "[Trump] played not a round of golf this weekend, [but] a tournament of golf. A three-day tournament."
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"We continue to blame everybody else in the world that we designed and policed after World War II," Stewart said. "We're the richest country in the world ever. We're not the world's victims. If we have inequalities in this country, that's on us."
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Since the end of Donald Trump's first presidency, there has been a decline in the American economy.
"Financial destruction not seen since the pandemic, and this time there's no controversy over how it all started… You, Trump, released the contagion," Jon Stewart said.
"It's your lab leak," he continued. "And it's right out in the open."
