Comedian Jon Stewart has suggested that President Trump is not like Adolf Hitler because “Hitler was popular.”
Stewart made the bizarre claim during Saturday’s episode of The Late Show with Jon Stewart.
“People keep saying this guy is Hitler. No, he’s not. And I’ll tell you why he’s not. Hitler was popular.”
”This guy is not. It ain’t flying in a lot of places where you think it might be flying.”
Watch the clip below:
Jon Stewart on Donald Trump: “People keep saying this guy is Hitler. No, he’s not. And I’ll tell you why he’s not. Hitler was popular. This guy is not. It ain’t flying in a lot of places where you think it might be flying.” pic.twitter.com/8objwJIlcG
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) January 18, 2026
While it is true that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power democratically, the comparison or “joke” collapses when one remembers that Hitler went on to oversee a brutal and totalitarian regime in which dissent was punishable by death.
Trump, meanwhile, has won three consecutive presidential elections despite overwhelming opposition from the media and the political establishment.
Since coming back on air in 2024 after a long hiatus, Stewart has become notorious for his bizarre rants and outbursts about the current administration.
Just last week, Stewart attempted to defend the actions of Renee Good, an anti-ICE protester who was shot down after trying to run over a federal officer carrying out his duties.
“When I look at that video, I don’t see both sides in a dogmatic stance,” Stewart said at the time.
”I see a woman, maybe naive, sitting in a car thinking she has to do something and she’s going to block something, and a wildly extreme overreaction to that small act of defiance.
“And then, like, I just—when they say, like, she was radicalized, I just think, well, there are masked gunmen in her neighborhood who she’s read about taking 17-year-old kids and pulling them off the street.”
Jon Stewart suggests that trying to run over a federal agent is merely a “small act of defiance”. pic.twitter.com/HOM8GxnIZM
— Timcast News (@TimcastNews) January 13, 2026
During an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Stewart argued the media should double down on their anti-Trump bias because that is the most effective method of resistance.
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