{"id":795,"date":"2025-06-17T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=795"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:21:34","slug":"jon-stewart-rips-trump-involvement-in-israel-iran-conflict-werent-we-about-to-make-a-nuclear-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/jon-stewart-rips-trump-involvement-in-israel-iran-conflict-werent-we-about-to-make-a-nuclear-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart rips Trump involvement in Israel-Iran conflict: 'Weren't we about to make a nuclear deal?'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Stewart is tearing into President Trump, mocking\u00a0him as the\u00a0country’s failed “dealmaker in chief” amid the growing conflict between Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n

“What happened with Iran? Weren’t we about to make a nuclear deal?” the “Daily Show” host\u00a0said during<\/a>\u00a0his monologue on Monday’s show.<\/p>\n

“Wasn’t our dealmaker in chief making a deal to keep Iran from enriching uranium? Actually, didn’t we have a deal before our dealmaker in chief so wisely pulled us from that deal?” Stewart said.<\/p>\n

Stewart’s remarks came after Israel launched<\/a> deadly air strikes against Iran on Thursday that it said targeted Tehran\u2019s nuclear facilities and military sites.<\/p>\n

Iran, which had been engaging in nuclear talks with the U.S. to replace the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that Trump withdrew from during his first term, pulled out<\/a> of negotiations that were scheduled for last Sunday following Israel’s attack.<\/p>\n

“Why did this have to go so bomb-y on Iran now?” Stewart asked the Comedy Central show’s audience, before playing a clip of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying, “At current enrichment rates, [Iran] will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage.”<\/p>\n

“Iran is months away from having a nuclear bomb,” Stewart said with a look of feigned horror, before adding, “says Netanyahu in … 2012.”<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old comedian then cued up another clip of Netanyahu, with Israel’s leader saying that Iran was “weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.”<\/p>\n

“Holy s—, that’s why: Iran’s only weeks away from having an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs says Netanyahu … in 2015,” Stewart exclaimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Netanyahu talks about Iran getting nukes the way I talk about the Knicks winning a title,” Stewart said of New York’s NBA team. <\/p>\n

“This is the year. The Knicks are one piece away … weeks away from winning a title,” Stewart said, mimicking Netanyahu.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“But they never win a f—ing title,” Stewart quipped through clenched teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Stewart is tearing into President Trump, mocking\u00a0him as the\u00a0country’s failed “dealmaker in chief” amid the growing conflict between Israel and Iran. “What happened with Iran? Weren’t we about to<\/p>\n

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