Jon Stewart Suffers On-Air Meltdown, Leaves Set Bleeding After Wild Anti-DOGE Rant

Jon Stewart suffered a bloody injury on The Daily Show after smashing a coffee mug in a furious rant against federal budget cuts uncovered by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Stewart initially pretended to support cost-cutting measures but quickly shifted, arguing that corporate subsidies and defense spending should be slashed instead of the programs targeted by DOGE.

“How about we just take $3 billion in subsidies we give to oil and gas companies that already turned billions in profits? How long did that take? Oh, wait. How about we just close down the carried interest loophole on hedge funds? That’s $1.3 billion a year,” Stewart exclaimed, his frustration mounting.

He continued his tirade, voice rising: “Oh, how about we stop the $2 trillion we’ve given to defense contractors to build a fighter jet that blows when everybody knows the next war is going to be fought with drones and blockchain, whatever that is.”

“Holy shit! I can’t believe it,” he yelped. “I just saved us billions of dollars in 11 seconds! Just call me Big Balls!”

Turning his fury toward pharmaceutical companies, Stewart blasted them for “allowing” Americans to negotiate drug prices only after raking in billions in subsidies.

“It would be embarrassing if it was a small drop in the bucket and that the American people didn’t expect that we should negotiate for all their fucking drugs because we’ve already paid for them with our subsidies! F*cking thanks! Come on!” he shouted, slamming his fist against the table in frustration.

But as he brought his hand down, it smashed into a ceramic coffee cup, shattering it on impact and slicing open several of his fingers.

Glancing down at the blood pooling in his palm, Stewart’s fiery outrage gave way to a moment of humility. “I’ll be going to the hospital,” he admitted sheepishly.

Breitbart report: Before all that Stewart also attacked the whole idea of DOGE as being built merely on “hate.”

Before slashing his fingers on the cup, Stewart indicated that he thinks DOGE is “rash” and “animated by malice.”

“Even if this project of DOGE is animated by malice for administrators and is seemingly rash and occasionally cutting off critical government functions out of haste the savings alone will be worth it on the Doge website, they posted $16 billion saved just in cancelled contracts interesting if true,” he exclaimed.

Stewart did not give any examples of “critical government functions” being cut by DOGE because there are no such examples.

Further, his suggestion that defense spending should be cut before funding studies that addict Japanese quails to cocaine belies the fact that spending on defense is an actually legitimate constitutional expenditure, whereas funding studies that addict birds to cocaine is not.

Of course, DOGE has already noted that defense spending will be investigated. So, Stewart has no leg to stand on with the point.