“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart doesn’t mince words.
“I know liberals say, ‘Don’t say Joe Biden is old.’ Don’t say what people see with their own eyes! You can say it, he can’t hear us,” Mr. Stewart said in a new comedy show on Netflix.
“I know you know how f——— old he is, and I know you don’t want to say it because [former President Donald] Trump is so scary, but he’s so f——— old … when you watch him on television, you’re nervous, aren’t ya?” he said.
Mr. Biden, 81, would be the oldest person ever elected should he win again in November. He would be 86 years old by the time his second term ends.
Mr. Stewart said the president’s age is just fine, but not for the job. “I’m not saying that Biden can’t contribute to society, he just shouldn’t be president,” he said.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump isn’t much better — he’s 77.
“Why are we allowing this? And now we’re going to have a president that’s the two oldest people that have ever run for the office of the presidency,” Mr. Stewart said.
In February, Mr. Stewart questioned both men’s acuity.
“These two candidates … are both similarly challenged,” he said. “And it is not crazy to think that the oldest people in the history of the country to ever run for president might have some of these challenges.”
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