Ridiculing Donald Trump for insisting that children need to settle for fewer dolls and pencils in the midst of his global trade war, late-night host Jon Stewart noted that “if a Democrat even hinted at toy rationing,” there would be Fox News special coverage “on the sobbing children of socialist America.”
Kicking off Monday night’s Daily Show monologue with Trump’s interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, Stewart sarcastically wondered how the president would thread the “rhetorical needle” of “taking credit for the remaining good parts of the economy, while subtly assigning blame to Joe Biden for some of the bad, on fire parts.”
