There was a lot to unpack about Donald Trump’s inauguration day, from viral hats to the speech itself and the reaction it had online.
In the Daily Show clip above Jon Stewart breaks the day down, from an awkward gesture from Eric Trump to a significantly worse gesture from Elon Musk which looked a lot like a Nazi salute.
“OK. Charitably I’m just going to say that was an awkward, my heart goes out to you gesture. Many of you might have done it like this,” says Stewart, miming a gesture where he uses both hands and keeps them close to his chest. “But you know, listen, it’s a ****ing nerve-wracking day, you’re not normally a public speaker, it’s a one-off gesture…” Cue Stewart playing another clip of Musk repeating the salute a second time, this time to the back of the stadium. “Son of a bitch.”
Stewart goes on to talk about Joe Biden’s last minute pardons for his family, before giving the whole day the following, fairly depressing summary.
“So the takeaway of this entire day was, a man who tried to overthrow the government has been peacefully handed the reins of power, and the outgoing president has started a new tradition of blanket pardoning everyone in his orbit,” he says. “The two men creating a magnificent, snake-sucking-its-own-dick cycle of no accountability.”
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