Jon Stewart is mocking the media's coverage of Donald Trump's criminal trial. 'The Daily Show' host slammed the likes of Jake Tapper, Nicolle Wallace and Erin Burnett for their extensive and at times incredibly dramatic reporting of the former president's New York criminal trial.
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00:00 "The legal walls closing in around Donald Trump."
00:02 "The legal walls are starting to close in on Donald Trump."
00:06 "Yes, this time, Mr. Bond."
00:09 Jon Stewart is mocking the media's coverage of Donald Trump's criminal trial.
00:14 The Daily Show hosts slammed the likes of Jake Tapper, Nicole Wallace, and Aaron Burnett for
00:19 their extensive and at times incredibly dramatic reporting of the former president's New York
00:24 criminal trial. In the segment titled "America's Most Tremendously Wanted," Stewart began by
00:28 saying that this trial will obviously be a test of the fairness of the American legal system,
00:33 but it's also a test of the media's ability to cover Donald Trump in a responsible way.
00:38 "Perhaps if we limit the coverage to the issues at hand and try not to create
00:41 an all-encompassing spectacle of the most banal of details, perhaps that would help."
00:47 He then followed up by showing clips of cable news' wall-to-wall coverage of Trump's commute
00:52 to and from court each day.
00:54 "Seriously, are we gonna follow this guy to court every f*****g day?
00:58 Are you trying to make this OJ? It's not a chase. He's commuting."
01:04 Stewart then highlighted some of the more coverage seen on cable news,
01:09 including CNN's Jake Tapper trying to hilariously analyze a glowering courtroom sketch of Trump,
01:14 and also clips of journalists at the trial giving play-by-play reports of Trump's literal movements,
01:19 what he did with his lips, how he moved his neck, and more.
01:22 "At some point in this trial, something important and revelatory is going to happen,
01:29 but none of us are going to notice because of the hours spent on his speculative facial tics."
01:34 He concluded, "We got a long ways to go here. It's the first day of the first of Trump's 438
01:39 trials to come. Pace yourselves."
01:41 "And if you're bored, you can always start planning how you're gonna f**k up covering
01:45 his next trial and the sober mea culpa you'll deliver during his next term as president."
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