Jon Stewart asks who "Trump is for you" really means

Obama's Cheesecake Factory line and the Nicki Minaj aside are both here, but the monologue's real target is money promised only if Republicans win.

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Jon Stewart's midterm monologue starts with a voter who would not stay on script. Asked about the election on Fox Business, college student Andrew Pitts talks about gas prices and inflation, and Stewart suggests that was not the culture-war answer the host had hoped for. The rest of the segment holds Donald Trump's closing argument up against that answer.

The title leads with two moments other late-night hosts have also seized on: Trump's rally remarks about Nicki Minaj, and Barack Obama's line that Trump has "the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." Both are in it. But Stewart spends longer on the money. He shows Trump boasting about oil and gas profits while drivers pay at the pump, then tying federal investment and settlements for Camp Lejeune veterans to Republican victories. "So if we don't win, there's no money," Trump says in the footage.

Stewart also takes on Trump's claim that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed would need metal detectors to enter the Senate ("He's playing scary Muslim from 2016!"), and a Vivek Ramaswamy ad in Ohio built around Amy Acton's estranged mother. When Trump snaps "You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?", Stewart wants to know when Trump became Miss Hannigan, the orphanage tyrant of Annie.

Obama's joke gets its own detour, less for the line itself than for the conservative television segments that hurried to defend the restaurant chain. "The Cheesecake Factory is not an actual factory, right?" Stewart asks. The show was not done with it: the next night, Jordan Klepper returned to the cheesecake defense in a segment with John Hodgman.

The monologue drew about 4.2 million views since yesterday, and its comments arrived more than eleven times faster than on the channel's usual first day. Many urge Americans to vote, some of them from viewers abroad, and plenty go back to the Fox Business student.

The finish turns Trump's 2024 slogan, "Trump is for you," into a question. Stewart's answer is wealthy donors, billionaires and family interests, with a very different sign-off saved for everyone else.

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