Jon Stewart mocks Netanyahu and Trump about Iran nuclear threat with videos from 2012, 2015 and 2018
The host of ‘The Daily Show’ mocked the leader of Israel in a sensational rant.
As Iran and Israel continue to exchange missile fire, Donald Trump has done little to de-escalate tensions. Instead, the President of the United States left the G7 Summit early, grabbed his phone, and took to social media to suggest that a U.S.-backed missile strike against Iran might be imminent:
“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” he wrote. “What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CANNOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”
For years, both Israel and the United States have been fixated on Iran’s alleged proximity to developing a nuclear weapon. This obsession hasn’t gone unnoticed by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart.
After mocking Trump for yet another string of absurd and meaningless remarks, Stewart played a video clip of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying, “By next spring, at current rates, [Iran] will move onto the final stage” of creating a nuclear weapon. The audience gasped—before Stewart revealed that the clip was from… 2012.
What comes first, Iran’s nukes or the Knicks’ title?
He then played another clip of Netanyahu warning that “Iran is weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.” A dramatic pause followed—until Stewart revealed the date: 2015.
Stewart continued by ridiculing Netanyahu’s 2018 presentation of Iran’s so-called “secret nuclear files.” Delivering the punchline with perfect timing, he quipped: “Netanyahu talks about Iran getting nukes the same way I talk about the Knicks getting a title!”
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