“The one thing I didn’t think I would be on it was bored. I was fucking bored,” Stewart said in the latest episode of his podcast “The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart” which aired Thursday.
Stewart made fun of Trump-Musk’s livestream in the podcast’s opening, noting that the interview had inadvertently spotlighted Trump’s age. The property mogul turned 78 in June.
“But holy shit, was that just like two old dudes in a basement talking about how hot each other is? Like, wow,” Stewart said.
Stewart said Trump’s age has become a focal point since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month.
“I think he’s, before our eyes, becoming Biden in this race,” Stewart said of Trump’s slurred speech during the livestream.
“The whole idea was that performance by Biden in the debate was so shocking to the system of functionality, where you watched a guy, and you go like, ‘Oh shit.’ Like this is a real decline in a way that we had not anticipated, but it obscured what is clearly going on with Trump as well,” he continued.
And now that Trump is no longer running against Biden, he isn’t able to come across as the relatively younger, energetic candidate, Stewart said in his podcast.
“When you remove that from the equation, you’re just left with a much more stark focus on what his decline is. And then you listen to those Twitter spaces. And again, like he’s always been a bit rambly, but holy fuck,” he said.
This isn’t the first time Stewart has flagged Trump’s age while weighing in on the presidential election.
While performing at the “Netflix Is A Joke” Festival in May, Stewart said that having Biden and Trump on the ballot was a mistake.
“Why are we allowing this? And now we’re going to have a president that’s the two oldest people that have ever run for the office of the presidency,” Stewart told the audience, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Then, in June, Stewart said on “The Daily Show” that the Biden-Trump rematch was devolving into the two candidates taking potshots at the other’s age.
“I guess the election has basically boiled down to each candidate accusing the other of having soup where there should be brain,” Stewart said.
That said, Trump, who will now battle 59-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency this November, doesn’t see himself as old.
In a Truth Social post last month, the GOP nominee said he thought Harris was polling poorly “against a fine and brilliant young man” like himself.
Representatives for Trump and Musk didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.
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