Jon Stewart Jokes Trump Will Have Press Corps Tasting His Food for Poison After Decoy Flight Backlash

During a recent interview on his podcast, The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, the comedian took aim at the recent controversy surrounding President Donald Trump's decoy flight back from the NATO Summit in Turkey. The flight was arranged to protect Trump from an alleged assassination threat from Iran, but left behind in the aircraft were the White House press corps and some members of the president's staff.

They were later tricked into believing they were safe, while Trump had secretly taken a separate route on a catering truck to an undetermined location.

When asked by "The Weekly Show" producer Brittany Mehmedovic what the press corps thought of putting their lives on the line for the president, Stewart responded with a hearty "Absolutely." He then proceeded to imagine various absurd scenarios to accommodate the press, such as putting on the president's wig or red tie, or tasting his food to ensure it was not poisoned.

Stewart quipped, "Do you want one of us to put on the Trump wig? Do you want us to put on the red tie and do that?" He also joked about the press being tasked with detecting any potential contamination in Trump's food, even suggesting they taste his food.

Stewart went on to mock the president's escape strategy, noting that it was reminiscent of the slapstick antics of the Pink Panther. "Did he have to put on the cater waiter outfit?" he wondered. The host also pointed out that Trump insisted on press corps members going through the same ordeal, despite not being in direct danger himself, and corrected the president's statement to "If they go, they go ... 'If I go, I go — and you don’t go.'"

In summary, Jon Stewart used humor to address the controversy surrounding President Trump's decoy flight, poking fun at the press corps' willingness to risk their lives for the president, his escape route via a catering truck, and the president's insistence on including himself and the press in the same danger.