Jon Stewart opened tonight’s episode of The Daily Show with the latest development in the saga of, as he deemed it, “the very normal and not shady handling of the Epstein files.”
Jumping right in, as tackled by Saturday Night Live a couple of nights ago, Stewart addressed the particular email in which Jeffrey Epstein’s brother asked if Vladimir Putin had a picture of Donald Trump giving oral sex to someone named Bubba, which was an old nickname for Bill Clinton. Since then, Mark Epstein has clarified that the moniker was not in reference to the former president.
“Thank you for clearing that up,” Stewart quipped. “No further questions, your honor. Wait, uh, before I go, one last thing: Which Bubba was he blowing then? It’s not Bubba Gump — that’s a restaurant — and you can’t blow a restaurant. By the way, that’s not a challenge Mr. President.”
Contradicting Trump’s insistence that the Epstein files are uninteresting to the public, the political comedian embarked on a barrage of painstaking wordplay: “The little taste of that — no pun intended — did arouse — again, no pun intended — some curiosity about the rest of, if I may, the load (that one I meant). But pressure is building—is there any way to talk about this story that doesn’t sound ejaculate-adjacent? ‘People are begging on their knees?’ No, this is not … ‘demanding release?’ No…”
Stewart also slammed the POTUS for his aggressive pivots on the matter, showcasing videos of Trump redirecting questions about the files concerning the convicted child sex offender and, in one instance, urging reporters to instead focus on his economic gains.
“What planet do you live on? ‘Great job on affordability?’ My Taco Bell order is now $72 … this dude is flailing. The normally reliable Trump is even struggling to deliver on his greatest gift: the cutting nickname,” the late-night host said.
He continued, “This Epstein thing is no Democrat hoax, and you know it’s real because Trump’s allies are working overtime to distract, or in the case of Fox News, not even a mention. When the emails came out, Fox devoted most of their airtime to such urgent matters as: the socialist takeover of Seattle, the Treasury phasing out the penny, the Northern Lights, the growing popularity of Christian music and, as always, Kamala Harris goes crazy for carbs.”
Stewart also invoked the viral and long-debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory circa 2016 and the hypocrisy of the MAGA base in treating Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta as an “enigma machine” and becoming “so obsessed with finding evidence of sex trafficking they built a whole code book and applied it to those emails.” It’s a stark difference to how Trump’s fervent supporters have approached the trove of Epstein documents, emails that are dated following the disgraced financier’s conviction, Stewart said.
He concluded, “Mentioned in these emails more than anyone else, more than 1,600 times, is Donald Trump. Is that evidence of his guilt? No. But it shows that he’s a part of that world, and certainly, the circumstantial evidence points to his understanding of what was occurring. But if there are more of you out there that need definitive proof, perhaps this will convince you:”
Cue: Trump in an archival commercial for Pizza Hut’s stuffed-crust pie.
Watch The Daily Show segment above.
This article was published by Natalie Oganesyan on 2025-11-18 00:04:00
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