Jon Stewart says Donald Trump is ageing the nation like Tom Hanks in ‘Cast Away’ as president marks 100 days

The Daily Show presenter also mocked Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary and JD Vance meeting the Pope before his death

Jon Stewart mocked Donald Trump as the president marks 100 days in office, comparing the Republican’s return to the White House to Tom Hanks character in the film Cast Away.

The comedian began this week’s episode of The Daily Show with a segment called: “President Trump’s second first 100 days: An incredible 100 days with zero disturbance.”

Appearing from below his desk and wearing a long, fake, white beard, the 62-year-old joked: “It’s officially been a 100 days of Donald Trump. I’m so tired. It’s ageing this nation in Tom Hanks’ Cast Away years.” In the Oscar-nominated film, Tom Hanks plays a FedEx worker who is stranded on a desert island for years, leaving him with wild hair and a bushy beard.

Stewart quickly discards his own beard, mocking his facial hair and quipping: “I was kidding! Energy! Imagine me with a white beard.”

Starting with Trump’s low approval rating, Stewart noted: “He doesn’t care. He’s not afraid of being underwater because he’s equipped with a flotation unit protective accessory or a FUPA (fatty upper pubic area). Look it up.”

Moving on to Trump’s impact on the economy, Stewart played a clip from the election campaign trail where the president promised “a brand-new Trump economic boom” in his second term.

Jon Stewart on The Daily Show (Comedy Central/Paramount)

“Unfortunately, I do think it’s pretty clear that on the economy, Donald Trump did make a boom-boom,” Stewart joked. “He made a little boom-boom, a little pain. Aw, did Trump go boom-boom?”

Stewart then moved onto Trump’s wife, Melania, and a lucrative upcoming Amazon documentary about her.

“Ah! The free market,” Stewart began. “But seriously, $40m for a documentary about Melania Trump? No offence, I’m sure she’s an interesting person, but ... the entirety of the Planet Earth series, 11 episodes, was less than that: $25m. And I know Melania is a mysterious and private woman, but I guarantee you don’t have to wait outside her house for weeks at a time hoping to catch a rare nocturnal feeding on a striped South American toad.”

He also took aim at US vice president JD Vance, who was one of the last people to meet Pope Francis before he died on 21 April 2025. Ridiculing Vance’s initials, Stewart said: “Jessica Diane Vance, what did you do to this man? This pope has literally touched lepers. He drank sewage water in slums and survived all of it. Ten minutes! Ten minutes talking with JD Vance and the pope is like, ‘God, check please.'”

Pope Francis met JD Vance at the Vatican a day before he died (Vatican Media)

Stewart concluded by poking fun at Trump for believing he has “leverage” in the US’s self-inflicted trade war and for claiming the upper hand belongs to “we the people”.

“It took the people 250 years of striving to live up to a constitutional republic and rule of law, painstaking equity that you are squandering,” said Stewart. “That is the crux of American exceptionalism. You just want to make us great. That’s a downgrade. Our brand is not ‘strategic uncertainty’ and you are not the keeper of our ‘pot of gold.’ You are a temporary leprechaun.”