Jon Stewart rants about ‘mundane’ Trump trial

Jon Stewart has said thatDonald Trump’s hush money trial is “mundane” – at least for now – and that the media should be wary of focusing too much on the all-encompassing spectacle.

The Daily Show host began by showing various clips of journalists discussing how media coverage has changed over the years to be more responsible when covering stories about Trump.

“I think to the degree that the media had lessons to learn in 2016, they seem to have been learned,” one MSNBC journalist said.

“It’s the media’s responsibility to not get distracted,” another said.

“All of us have learned some valuable lessons from the last couple of years in delineating what’s significant, what’s important,” a CNN journalist said in a separate clip.

But Stewart wasn’t convinced.

“So brave,” he quipped, mocking the journalists. “I think for this trial we will see the seeds of that introspection bear fruit.”

He then cut to clips showing multiple cable news analysts declaring Mr Trump’s hush money trial as the “trial of the century.”

“Perhaps if we limit the coverage to the issues at hand and try not to create an all-encompassing spectacle of the most banal details, perhaps that would help,” Stewart said, before jumping to CNN, ABC, KTLA, Fox News and GoodDay New York footage of Mr Trump’s motorcade on Monday.

“They’re now making their way across town, along 57th street,” a reporter for GoodDay New York could be heard saying.

“They just crossed Park Avenue, making their way up towards Lexington Avenue.”

Meanwhile, a reporter for ABC 13 describes Trump’s arrival as the “intersection of American history with defiance.”

“He arrived at the intersection of American history where he put a quarter in the parking meter of destiny,” Stewart hit back,