Jon Stewart unintentionally lower open his hand on Monday evening’s “Daily Show” after shattering a mug on his desk as he railed towards the pharmaceutical trade.
Stewart spent a lot of the opening monologue criticizing President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk’s efforts to make price range cuts through their Division of Authorities Effectivity program.
Stewart referred to as himself “DOGE curious” and mentioned he additionally want to eradicate waste, fraud and abuse ― then went after the trouble for as a substitute focusing on on a regular basis staff and comparatively low-cost packages.
He slammed DOGE for not taking up the oil trade, which reaps billions in authorities subsidies, and pharmaceutical corporations, which develop medicine with the assistance of taxpayer cash after which promote these drugs again to the general public at high greenback whereas additionally having fun with additional protections from the federal authorities.
Stewart smashed his mug in outrage:
His hand started bleeding nearly instantly.
“I”ll be going to the hospital,” Stewart mentioned after a fast have a look at the injured hand, which he stored out of sight behind the desk for a lot of the remainder of the section.
When he introduced it out close to the top of the monologue, nonetheless bleeding, the viewers groaned in unison.
“It’s tremendous!” he yelled as he regarded on the injury.
Later within the present, during an interview with Georgetown Law’s Rupa Bhattacharyya, Stewart continued to maintain that hand out of sight ― and when it did briefly seem, it was bandaged however with blood nonetheless seeping via.
“Oh wow, this factor’s actually popping out,” he mentioned.
Stewart later wrote on X, previously Twitter:
See the way it unfolded within the Monday evening “Day by day Present” monologue:
