Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Jon Stewart laid into President Donald Trump and his administration, calling the group “petty” and “weak” throughout Monday’s episode of “The Each day Present.”
The senator stopped by the Comedy Central program and mentioned Pete Hegseth’s latest censure of him, which happened after he (and different politicians) known as on service members to withstand any “unlawful” orders issued by Trump. As Kelly defended throughout his look, he didn’t break the legislation along with his social media video, slamming the Trump administration’s accusations in opposition to him as “ridiculous.”
Stewart, who learn aloud the memo despatched to Sen. Kelly relating to the censure, added: “That is the half that I assumed was type of bonkers. ‘On November twentieth, 2025, you issued a joint assertion defending the video and reinforcing your name for refusal of what you characterize as illegal orders.’ Effectively, you didn’t characterize it that manner. That’s what you mentioned.”
He continued: “You criticized navy management for firing admirals and generals in quotations, and surrounding themselves with sure males, additionally in quotations, asserting you’ll — and so they bolded this — at all times defend the Structure.”
Kelly as soon as once more double down on his sentiments, including, “I’m in the USA Senate. I’m on the Armed Companies Committee. My job is oversight. I voted for these admirals and generals. They fired them. And this man’s surrounded by a bunch of sure males. They didn’t like that I mentioned that.”
Whereas Stewart was baffled by the very fact the administration was attempting to strip Kelly of his rank and pension for talking out, the latter vowed he was “going to do every little thing in [his] energy to not enable them to try this.”
Per Stewart, Trump and Hegseth’s response to the video spoke volumes of the administration’s character.
“That’s fragility,” the comic sounded off. “I don’t suppose I’ve ever seen energy portrayed on this method, this smacks of weak point and worry. When folks have the ability and and the respect, they don’t should be petty. That is petty.”
Kelly co-signed Stewart’s stance, and took a shot at Trump in response. “It’s a mirrored image of the individual on the prime,” the senator mentioned. “It at all times is.”
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