Jon Stewart knows why Donald Trump hasn’t made him a target like he has all the rest of his critics in late night.
“I’ve had my experiences” as Trump’s target, Stewart said on his Weekly Show podcast Thursday. “I take great pride in the fact that Donald Trump, at 2:30 AM, just tweeted, I think in all caps, ‘Jon Stewart is a p---y,’” he said. “This is obviously before he was the commander-in-chief of the United States,” he said. But now Trump doesn’t come after him anymore and he thinks he knows why.
“It’s a function of relevance,” Stewart said, self-deprecatingly. “I don’t think we are on the radar.”
While Trump has threatened, mocked, and celebrated cancellations and suspensions of other late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and even late-night’s most political