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Video: Jon Stewart Addresses Trump Tower Sign Kerfuffle

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jun 18, 2014 4:00PM

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart weighed in on Chicago’s latest civic outrage, the dispute over Donald Trump adding his name to his eponymous Chicago skyscraper. It’s the type of red meat rich for Stewart to sink his teeth into. Watch.


In short, the longer we all give print and screen time to this, the longer it lasts. If, as Stewart notes, Trump is like Beetlejuice except all you have to do is say his name once, not mentioning it at all will make him go away. Let Trump call Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin (a Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard fellow) a "third-rate architecture critic." It's what Trump does.