During Monday’s (8) The Daily Show, Jon Stewart weighed in on the reports about Donald Trump’s alleged death that began to circulate last week.
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The rumors began after the sudden cancellation of several of Trump’s scheduled commitments. After that, internet users started to speculate that the American president might be dead.
“We haven’t seen much of the president in the past week. Basically, he’s been out of the public eye. He’s clearly hiding something about his health. The hashtag ‘Trump is dead’ became a trending topic on social media,” Stewart began.
Criticizing the media for the exaggerated reports of his alleged death, the host offered some other possibilities for why Trump might have been absent.
“The guy can’t take a few days off to rest and get a breast reduction without everyone suddenly ripping the toe tags off the president,” Stewart joked.
“Trump is alive. Although I would definitely not say he’s alive and well. Something is wrong with his health,” said the host of The Daily Show.
After his disappearance, the White House released an official statement revealing that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI).
This condition causes “the valves in the veins (usually in the legs or sometimes in the arms) not to work, causing blood to pool in the legs and increasing pressure on the vein walls,” according to the Society for Vascular Surgery.
In his first public appearance after the announcement, Trump was seen with bruises on his hands. Because of this, Stewart even suggested that people in his closest circle might be preparing to say goodbye.
“When you start to notice this pattern, you begin to realize that the whole atmosphere around this president is very similar to that of the Make-A-Wish kid. Everyone who goes into his office tries to fulfill one of his dreams.”
“I’m starting to think Trump is not a suffering, harmless child. I’m starting to think everyone treats Trump this way, not because he’s the Make-A-Wish kid, but because he’s that kid from the Twilight Zone who, whenever someone annoyed him, would send the person to the cornfield.”
“For your consideration: a nation held hostage by the fragile ego of a baby president, who may or may not be dying of syphilis, but is swollen — I don’t know if he’s dying, [but] he’s strangely swollen — and with whom we’ll be stuck for at least another three years — in the Twilight Zone,” Stewart concluded.
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