{"id":562,"date":"2026-04-28T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/04\/28\/jon-stewart-blasts-rfk-jr-for-abandoning-cheryl-hines-during-whcd-shooting-the-guy-who-outshined-you-is-stephen-f-miller\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:54:00","slug":"jon-stewart-blasts-rfk-jr-for-abandoning-cheryl-hines-during-whcd-shooting-the-guy-who-outshined-you-is-stephen-f-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/04\/28\/jon-stewart-blasts-rfk-jr-for-abandoning-cheryl-hines-during-whcd-shooting-the-guy-who-outshined-you-is-stephen-f-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Blasts RFK Jr. For Abandoning Cheryl Hines During WHCD Shooting: \u201cThe Guy Who Outshined You is Stephen F****** Miller\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tJon Stewart<\/a> tackled the presidential assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner<\/a> on Monday\u2019s episode of The Daily Show<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

\tThe comedian\u2019s monologue took the approach of pointing out the litany of absurdities related to the WHCD, including before, during and after the event. \u201cThe White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner is supposed to be an evening of fun and merriment until, like most things in America, it was interrupted by gunfire. This is why we can\u2019t have nice things,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cTo be perfectly frank, it\u2019s not even a nice thing. Nobody wanted this dinner in the first place! Nobody needed [this]. We\u2019re so fucked in this country right now. We can\u2019t even pull off a dinner that shouldn\u2019t have existed in the first place. \u2018Hey, let\u2019s celebrate the First Amendment with an administration that\u2019s doing everything it can do to destroy it.\u2019 Sounds great!\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tHe continued, \u201cShould we hold the dinner in a secure location? Well, we could. Or you know what, why not just the Hilton? You know what, let\u2019s not hold it in a secure location. Let\u2019s go to the Hilton. You know the Hilton slogan, \u201cMore hard to defend entry points than rooms.\u201d\u201d <\/p>\n

\tStewart has long disliked the WHCD, that is sometimes derisively dubbed the \u201cnerd prom,\u201d and has been outspoken critic of the coziness between journalists and politicians that events like this only reinforced. His monologue took shots at some of the attendees who seemed to use the shooting as a chance to create content. \u201cIn crisis situations like this, people tend to show you who they really are and who the elite of Washington DC are. Like this influencer, whose caption says, \u201cshooter at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner,\u201d but whose duck face says \u201cCoachella.\u201d \u2018We\u2019re all gonna die, Gucci.’\u201d \t<\/p>\n

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\tStewart spent a sizeable chunk of the segment on how people reacted when shots were fired and the Secret Service moved in to remove notable government figures from the ballroom. He reserved most of his incredulity for Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who on video is seen being rushed out of the room, but conspiculously leaves his wife, the actress Cheryl Hines, behind. <\/p>\n

\t\u201cFrom JD Vance\u2019s Dancing with the Stars<\/em> quickstep exit to Pete Hegseth dropping a smoldering \u2018Blue Steel,\u2019 to RFK Jr. being whisked away by a Secret Service hive who apparently couldn\u2019t spare one worker bee for, I don\u2019t know, his wife,\u201d said Stewart before freezing the video clip. \u201cDo you see right there? There\u2019s a group of men carrying another man out of the room, and then there\u2019s a woman. A woman who appears to be\u2026 desperately reaching out for someone to care, [someone] to help her. That\u2019s a woman reaching up in agony and fear. That\u2019s RFK Jr\u2019s wife. How fucked up is that scene?\u201d <\/p>\n

\tStewart then showed the clip again in slow motion and asked the audience to pay attention to the foreground where White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, a man not known for his empathy or compassion, is shown escorting his pregnant wife out of the ballroom. \u201c[There\u2019s] Stephen Miller carefully protecting his wife. See, turned out, that\u2019s an option! You can protect your wife instead of, I don\u2019t know, beating her to the escape pod. And the guy who outshined you [RFK Jr.] is Stephen fucking Miller. That\u2019s who was more chivalrous. Stephen Miller, a guy who probably jerks off to the new Faces of Death<\/em> movie. And now for the rest of your life, for the rest of your life, your wife is gonna ask you a question no one\u2019s ever asked before, ever: \u2018Why can\u2019t you be more like Stephen Miller?’\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tDriving his point home, Stewart added, \u201cLooks like we got a new addition to the \u2018Kennedy family abandoning women to their fate\u2019 Wikipedia page.\u201d After groans from the crowd, Stewart shot back, \u201cOh, I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m sorry. Too soon or, or too many?\u201d <\/p>\n

\tAfter mocking the much-derided FBI Director Kash Patel\u2019s evening at the WHCD, Stewart moved on to Donald Trump\u2019s post-shooting interview with 60 Minutes<\/em>, picking out the more outlandish things the president said to CBS News\u2019 Norah O\u2019Donnell. Stewart played clips of Trump remarking repeatedly that he was protected by \u201cvery strong, physically strong, really attractive\u201d law enforcement people, as well as the fact that the Secret Service \u201cdrew those guns so fast, it looked like, they looked like Matt Dillon.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tAt this point, Stewart showed a picture on Matt Dillon from There\u2019s Something About Mary<\/em> up on the screen and said, \u201cI know what you\u2019re thinking: Matt Dillon? Is Donald Trump so old, he\u2019s confusing the guy from There\u2019s Something About Mary<\/em> with Matt Damon from the Bourne<\/em> movies. But it\u2019s not true. Trump is actually so old, he\u2019s not confused at all. He\u2019s referencing Marshal Matt Dillon from the Gunsmoke<\/em> TV show!\u201d <\/p>\n

Much like most of the internet, Stewart zeroed in on the \u2018Jim from The Office<\/em>\u2018 moment from Trump\u2019s 60 Minutes<\/em> interview, the moment the president looks straight at the camera as O\u2019Donnell reads out parts from the WHCD shooter\u2019s manifesto, notably the passage: \u201cI\u2019m no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\tThe last section of Stewart\u2019s monologue featured first hand WHCD testimony from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, The Daily Show<\/em>\u2018s only representative at the event. Normally, with these recaps, it\u2019s incumbent on the writer to pull out the highlights of a segment but the Triumph interview is genuinely hilarious must-watch TV, so on this occasion, The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> will link directly to the relevant part on YouTube video<\/a> <\/a>here<\/a>. Watch it, you won\u2019t regret it. \t<\/p>\n

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