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President Joe Biden had a rough night during his first presidential debate of the year.
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Biden’s performance on Thursday was riddled with gaffes and missteps.
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It turns out that Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show,” thinks the debate was a disaster for Biden, too.
Jon Stewart has spoken out about Thursday’s presidential debate and he thinks it was a disaster for President Joe Biden, 81, too.
The host of “The Daily Show” went live after the debate, where he mocked Biden’s performance against his rival, the former President Donald Trump78.
At one point in the debate, Biden slipped his words when defending his health care record, saying his administration had “finally defeated Medicare.”
Trump quickly pounced on Biden’s misstep: “Well, he’s right. He defeated Medicare. He killed it, and he’s destroying Medicare.”
“OK, a high-pressure situation. A lot of times you can confuse saving Medicare with defeating it,” Stewart joked.
“I’m sure it’s not something that was repeated during the debate and caused Democrats across the country to jump out of windows or quietly throw up into the nearest trash can,” he continued.
But Biden, Stewart said, also appeared to be in trouble during the debate, even when it wasn’t his turn to speak. Biden was seen grimacing, looking bewildered and with his mouth hanging open as Trump spoke — a point Stewart made clear in a supercut he played on the show.
“A lot of people have a resting 25th Amendment face,” Stewart said, referring to the section of the Constitution that establishes procedures in the event of a president’s death.
“I’m no political expert, but while Biden was preparing for a week at Camp David, did anyone mention he would also be on camera on a split screen?” he continued.
It is not the first time that Stewart has drawn attention to the old ages of Biden and Trump.
When Stewart returned to “The Daily Show” in February, his first monologue was about Biden and Trump’s suitability for the White House.
“These two candidates, they’re both challenged in the same way,” Stewart said. “And it’s not crazy to think that the oldest people in the history of the country to ever run for president are facing some of those challenges.”
Last month, Stewart told the crowd at the “Netflix is a Joke Fest” that Biden is so old he “shouldn’t be president.”
“I know you know how old he is, and I know you don’t want to say it because Trump is so scary, but he’s so old,” Stewart said. “I’m not saying Biden can’t contribute to society, he just shouldn’t be president.”
Representatives for Biden and Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment from BI outside regular business hours.
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