Jon Stewart Labels Zohran Mamdani 'The Best Case Scenario'

Posted • July 8, 2025: Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned from two weeks of vacation on Monday with Jon Stewart welcoming former 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft to the program to claim that his former colleagues fear “losing the First Amendment” after mutual parent company Paramount settled with President Trump in a lawsuit over their 2024 campaign interview with Kamala Harris. Elsewhere, Stewart ranted and raved against the Big Beautiful Bill, claiming that supporters better get used to people like Zohran Mamdani, because he is “the best case scenario.” … Earlier in the show, Stewart played a clip of GOP Rep. Troy Nehls discounting the Congressional Budget Office’s estimations of how many people will lose their health insurance due to the BBB because they are “wrong half the damn time.”

Work requirements omitted from his rant, Stewart declared that Nehls gets sexually aroused at the idea of kicking people off Medicaid and food stamps, “A congressman who just voted to force people off of Medicaid and food assistance, just smoking a fatty, with both hands bandaged from what I can only assume was a friction burn from too much celebratory masturbation. There is no other way around it. ‘Ugh, Medicaid and food stamps! I've got blisters on me fingers!’” (…)

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