Jon Stewart Calls Trump 'A Man-Baby' At UChicago Live Podcast Taping

By Gwendolyn Purdom in News on May 10, 2016 7:23PM

It’s been a tense nine months since Jon Stewart left The Daily Show, but the former late night host sick-burned his way back into the political conversation with his signature thoughtful edge during a live podcast taping at the University of Chicago on Monday.

Citing Donald Trump’s being a “man-baby” as one of the presumptive GOP nominee's main disqualifying features, and calling Hillary Clinton “a very bright woman without the courage of her convictions,” Stewart spoke with former Obama campaign strategist and director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics David Axelrod in front of a live audience of students for more than an hour. The interview was for Axelrod’s podcast “The Axe Files” and also touched on political correctness, globalization, and Stewart’s take on his TV successors’ political pull (“Comedy can’t have an impact on policy, people can have an impact on policy.”)

Jon Stewart, we need you.