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Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Jon Stewart Agrees Trump Administration Is Obsessed With ‘Not Being Taken for a Sucker'
Jon Stewart has a theory about why President Donald Trump has been running the country the way that he has, and it all goes back to Manhattan real estate. The Monday 'Daily Show' host shared his musings with former British Cabinet Minister and current co-host of 'The Rest Is Politics' Rory Stewart on the latest episode of 'The Weekly Show.' During the podcast interview, Jon jokingly asked Rory (so many Stewarts!) why Europe is so mean to the United States. After joking a bit about whether JD Vance thinks of America as the world's biggest superpower or 'the victimized kid on the playground,' Rory answered the comedian's underlying question. 'I guess the mentality at the moment feels like, from Europe, the Trump administration is obsessed with not being taken for a sucker. They seem to think that everyone is ripping them off all the time,' he said. 'Yes,' Jon deadpanned to the mild surprise of his guest. He then agreed further, saying, 'I don't think there's any question about that,' while calling Trump 'a very powerful manbaby.' 'I think so much of what makes it so difficult is that a lot of the ramifications that have been felt economically throughout the world are the psychological wound that our present leader suffered as a real estate developer from Queens who felt he was not given enough fealty from the Manhattan real estate,' Jon posited. 'So because of that, this is all a search for validation, loyalty and fealty. Unfortunately, it seems to be plunging the world into a global depression.' Rather than accepting the Comedy Central host's notions at face value, Rory took another step back, focusing instead on what it means that so many people routinely speculate about Trump's psychology. 'What I think it's showing, if I'm allowed to be pretentious for a second, is that the structure is falling down. You only start focusing on the psychology of the individual when the system isn't working,' Rory said. 'It only becomes important when it all goes executive orders.' Listen to the full episode here. New episodes of 'The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart' air Thursdays and are available across all major podcast platforms. The show is produced by Paramount Audio in association with Busboy Productions. The post Jon Stewart Agrees Trump Administration Is Obsessed With 'Not Being Taken for a Sucker' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
New York Times
07-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
How to Survive in Politically Volatile Times
By David French Produced by Jillian Weinberger In this episode of 'The Opinions,' the columnist David French and Rory Stewart explore how small-c conservatives can keep hope alive in the midst of a populist onslaught. Below is a transcript of an episode of 'The Opinions.' We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect. You can do so using the player above or on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. The transcript has been lightly edited for length and clarity. David French: I'm David French, a columnist for The New York Times. A lot of us are feeling politically homeless right now. The Democrats are flailing while trying to figure out how to stand up against Donald Trump, and there are people like me. I left the Republican Party in 2016 after Trump's rise. Looking at the political landscape, I wonder: Where do we fit in? Our friends in the United Kingdom are going through their own destabilizing political moment. I wanted to see how they're realigning to see what we can learn from them and how they're keeping up the fight. That's why I wanted to talk to Rory Stewart. He's a co-host of a podcast called 'The Rest Is Politics' and the author of the book 'How Not to Be a Politician.' For a long time, he was deeply embedded within the Tory Party, a traditional British conservative. He was a member of the British government, a minister. Rory campaigned against Brexit, and Boris Johnson eventually expelled him from the party. I wanted to talk to Rory about how those of us who care about democracy keep hope alive in the midst of a populist onslaught. It's a conversation that's political, certainly, but it also gets personal about how each of us can engage and persevere when engagement carries a cost. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
JD Vance Spends Day of Tragedy Trolling Foreign Podcaster
JD Vance found time to insult a British podcaster on Thursday as the nation reeled from the worst aviation disaster in almost a quarter of a century. The vice president was responding to criticism from Rory Stewart, a former Conservative lawmaker who now co-hosts the popular 'The Rest Is Politics' podcast. Stewart, who was also a tutor to Princes William and Harry and teaches at Yale, had trashed comments made in a Fox News interview on Wednesday. 'There's this old school—and I think it's a very Christian concept by the way—that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world,' Vance said in the interview. 'A lot of the far left has completely inverted that.' Replying to a clip of Vance's remarks on Twitter, Stewart said Vance had given a 'bizarre take on John 15:12-13 (This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends), calling Vance's interpretation 'less Christian and more pagan tribal.' 'We should start worrying when politicians become theologians, assume to speak for Jesus, and tell us in which order to love,' Stewart continued. 'Just google 'ordo amoris,'' Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, replied. 'Aside from that, the idea that there isn't a hierarchy of obligations violates basic common sense. Does Rory really think his moral duties to his own children are the same as his duties to a stranger who lives thousands of miles away? Does anyone?' 'I've said before and I'll say it again: the problem with Rory and people like him is that he has an IQ of 110 and thinks he has an IQ of 130,' Vance added in a follow-up post. 'This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years.' Alastair Campbell, the onetime spin doctor for former British prime minister Tony Blair and current co-host of Stewart's podcast, said it was 'very odd' the U.S. vice president 'has nothing better to do than troll my podcast partner.' Stewart himself replied to Vance's jibe on Friday morning, saying it was an honor to 'have my IQ questioned by you Mr VP.' 'But your attempts to speak for Christ are false and dangerous,' Stewart wrote. 'Nowhere does Jesus suggest that love is to be prioritized in concentric circles. His love is universal.' He went on to argue that humanity is 'selfish and tribal,' but 'the last person we should be invoking to justify our selfishness is Christ.' On Thursday, Vance also spoke at the White House press conference where President Donald Trump blamed DEI for undermining safety in U.S. aviation in response to the midair collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter which is believed to have killed 67 people over Washington, D.C. When Trump was asked how he knew diversity initiatives had played a role in the crash, Trump provided no evidence but instead said: 'Because I have common sense, OK?' He also said answered another reporter's question about his claims that diversity hiring was related to the disaster by saying: 'It just could have been.' After thanking Trump for his 'leadership' at the press conference, Vance doubled down on his boss' rhetoric. 'When you don't have the best standards in who you're hiring, it means on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in government,' Vance said. 'But on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there.'
