Jon Stewart accuses Biden of being ‘Trumpian’ by shutting down questions about his re-election bid

Daily Show host Jon Stewart has accused President Joe Biden of being “Trumpian” by refusing to even discuss the possibility of giving up the Democratic presidential nomination after his dismal debate performance last month in Atlanta.

On his podcast The Weekly Show, Stewart slammed Biden during a conversation with former Obama aides and Pod Save America hosts Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor as well as CNN commentator and former member of the South Carolina statehouse Bakari Sellers.

While Stewart hasn’t explicitly called for Biden to step aside, he criticized the president for not being open for discussion on the matter.

During a recent interview with ABC News, Biden suggested that only God could convince him to step aside.

“If the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race,’ I’d get out of the race. The Lord Almighty’s not coming down,” he said.

Stewart said on the podcast that it would be better if Biden “came out and said, ‘Look, I understand where I’m at in my lifespan and cycle and what I do. Here’s how this government works,’ rather than coming out and becoming Trumpian and saying, ‘You think someone else could hold NATO together? They could never. Only God can tell me to get out of the race.’”

He added: “If he were to come out and say, ‘Here’s my team. Here’s how we hold the line,’ but we’re not seeing any of that.

Nothing that’s been done inspires any confidence, other than the fatalism of, ‘It is what it is, and this is what we’re stuck with.’ And that’s the part that I think has degraded people’s trust in institutions and the government from the get-go. That’s a problem.”

The comedian added that a code of silence is stifling “what could be an incredibly productive conversation.”

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