Jon Stewart weighs in on Donald Trump

by Austin Stallings
Journalism Intern

Jon Stewart took some time to weigh in on Trump’s status as the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party.

“That’s not a birther thing,” Stewart told David Axelrod during a live taping of The Axe Files podcast. “I’m not a constitutional scholar so I can’t necessarily say, but are you eligible to run if you are a man-baby or a baby man?”

Stewart went on to say, “I’m not here to be politically incorrect, if they’re referred to as man-baby Americans, but he is a man-baby. He has the physical countenance of a man and a baby’s temperament and hands.”

Stewart discussed his notorious feuds with Donald Trump, and  Donald Trump’s character, or what he believed to be a lack there-of.

“I don’t know that a man-baby can be president,” Stewart said. “Character is destiny, and he is the most thin-skinned individual.”

The clip was filmed before an audience at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, which co-produced the podcast with CNN. Stewart also offered some advice for the students in the room who planned to get involved in politics. 

“Get into it,” he encouraged. “And don’t get it on you.” 

Watch the video here.

The Gayly- 5/11/16 @ 12:45 p.m. CDT