The Daily Show host Jon Stewart was left giggling after he showed a clip of a Fox News anchor trying — and failing — to keep President Donald Trump focused during a call-in interview.
Stewart was discussing Trump’s comments recent flurry of television interviews, noting that the president was “everywhere, remembering Lindsey Graham.”
He then played a clip from Fox & Friends in which Trump can be heard speaking over a montage of pictures from Graham’s life. Graham died on Sunday from aortic dissection, according to authorities.
“These people suffer from a very fine disease known as Trump derangement syndrome,” Trump says in the clip. “And yeah, [Graham] was seeing that. And —”
Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones tried to keep Trump on the topic of his conversation with Graham hours before his death, and away for election fraud claims.
“Mr President, did you notice any —”
Trump continued as though Jones had not said a word.
“— he’s really come a long way on terminating the filibuster,” Trump said.
Jones tries again.
“But Mr President, did you notice anything different [about Graham]?”
His words are barely intelligible because Trump speaks over the entirety of his question.
“Look at California,” Trump says over Jones. “Millions and millions of ballots. It’s impossible …”
The exchange continues like that for the remainder of the clip, before the camera cut back to a giggling Stewart, who quipped: “Oh, no, I’m sorry Mr. President. The TV station’s going through a tunnel! Boop.”
During the same episode, Stewart also pointed out that Trump had been needling the deceased senator during his media appearances.
At one point Trump told the hosts that Graham always called him, and he would say “Stop calling me, Lindsey.”
He shared a few other memories of his old friend during the segment.
“He was totally against me,” Trump told Fox & Friends of Graham, citing the senator’s very public criticism of the president. “That didn’t work out too well.”
Graham eventually became one of Trump’s loudest and most powerful allies.
But, despite their eventual friendship, Trump still took a chance during his interview to subtly jab the senator.
“He was a total workaholic politician,” Trump said. “You know, some people don’t call that work. Some people call that a lot of talking.”
Stewart suggested it was a failure of self-awareness for Trump to criticize anyone else about talking too much.
“It takes a lot of balls for Donald Trump to gently roast someone for yapping too much,” Stewart said. “He’s the one who toasted his friend on Meet the Press, CNN’s State of the Union, Fox & Friends. Trump was everywhere, remembering Lindsey Graham, even when the host appeared to not want him to.””
