Overview
- Opening his Jan. 13 show, Stewart asked “What the f— is happening in this country?” as he cited turmoil from Minnesota to Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
- He focused on U.S. moves in Venezuela following Nicolás Maduro’s capture and highlighted an ABC News report that Trump met top oil executives to discuss divvying up Venezuelan oil.
- Stewart referenced the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minnesota as part of a broader sense of domestic breakdown.
- He noted talk of U.S. actions involving Cuba, Greenland and Iran, presenting them as part of a pattern he says rewards power over principle.
- Labeling Trump the “Walt Disney of chaos,” Stewart also mocked footage of the president drifting off during a White House session to admire ballroom construction.