Jon Stewart: Trump’s ‘decline’ has him ‘becoming Biden in this race’

Jon Stewart says former President Trump’s “decline” has the former commander in chief becoming more like President Biden in the White House race, now that the president has dropped out.

“I’ll tell you what I think is happening, to be perfectly honest. I think he is, before our eyes, becoming Biden in this race,” Stewart said of Trump on “The Weekly Show” podcast, released Thursday.

The Comedy Central “Daily Show” host’s comparison of Trump to Biden came while offering his reaction to a much-buzzed-about interview on the social platform X earlier this week between the 45th president and Tesla founder Elon Musk.

Biden, 81, exited the 2024 presidential race last month following a disastrous debate against Trump that ignited questions about his physical and mental acuity. 

“The whole idea was that performance by Biden in the debate was so shocking to the system of functionality where you watched a guy and you go, ‘Oh s—. This is a real decline in a way that we had not anticipated,'” Stewart said.

“But it obscured what is clearly going on with Trump as well,” the comedian continued, citing 78-year-old Trump’s sometimes-rambling responses to Musk during the event on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“And so when you remove that from the equation, you’re just left with a much more stark focus on what his decline is,” Stewart said of Trump. 

“Then you listen to those Twitter Spaces, and again, he’s always been a bit rambly,” Stewart said of the ex-president, “but holy f—.”