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Jon Stewart ridicules Trump after dinner jokes throw allies into 'existential crisis’
Trump’s Joke Failed Because It Wasn’t a JokeThe Room Knew ItAt the White House Correspondents Dinner, Donald Trump went after Kaitlan Collins’s appearance, wandered through a joke about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and flatly repeated that he hates Adam Schiff. Jon Stewart’s response on The Daily Show got at the central fact: this was not comedy that misfired, but power performing contempt and expecting applause.Power, Not PunchlinesTrump was not testing material. He was asserting hierarchy. He used a formal political stage to belittle a reporter, name his enemies, and turn public ridicule into…
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