"So, just have to give us some time to adjust to this new world of total compliance so we can understand the rules because, you know, it's confusing. Like for instance, we all watched the footage of January 6, but I think we may have gotten a very different interpretation of it rather than the correct interpretation of it, which of course is yours, he said, addressing Trump. Help me out here. We'll play a game, Stewart began."
"Got it, don't agree that's what actually happened or what should have happened afterwards, but at least it sets a precedent. But now, let's jump ahead. I don't know, a day, to January 7 [2026]. We've all seen that footage. I think I know what I saw that day, too. But let's go through it again with the correct interpretation."
Jon Stewart contrasted President Trump's enthusiastic defense and call for pardons for January 6 rioters with the administration's treatment and characterization of Renee Nicole Good, a woman shot during an altercation with ICE. Stewart used side-by-side clips of Trump and administration officials to expose the contradictory narratives and to mock the shifting standards applied to protesters and a person shot by law enforcement. Stewart framed the contrast as a confusing new paradigm that demands citizens re-learn what counts as provocation, culpability, and deserving of clemency under the administration's interpretation.
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