00:00Jon Stewart is facing massive backlash from Democrats over his comments about Joe Biden.
00:05Stewart's return to The Daily Show on Monday night opened with a 20-minute monologue
00:09going after Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:12Stewart especially mocked the current president after his disastrous press conference last week
00:16where Biden struggled to assure Americans that he was still cognitively capable of performing his duties.
00:22The conduct of the response in the Gaza Strip.
00:41Garbanzo.
00:42But the blowback was swift with everyone from progressives to Elon Musk to the White House weighing in.
00:48Chris D. Jackson, an election commissioner in Tennessee, tweeted,
00:52Wow, so you basically say because Biden is old, he is basically as bad as Trump.
00:56Why the F do we never learn in this country?
00:59Sorry, but I won't be watching you either.
01:01Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tweeted,
01:04Well, after nine years away, there's nothing else to say to the both-sidest fraud,
01:08Jon Stewart bashing Biden, except please make it another nine years.
01:12A self-described Democratic activist tweeted,
01:14Jon Stewart retired and came back as Bill Maher.
01:17Meanwhile, Republicans gloated a bit with Elon Musk writing,
01:20balance and humor return.
01:22And Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt tweeted,
01:25You know you're in trouble when you're a Democrat president and Jon Stewart turns on you.
01:29The White House was even asked to weigh in during Tuesday's press briefing,
01:32in which they noted the press conference was entirely Biden's idea.
01:36During his monologue, Stewart had lamented about Biden and Trump's age-related issues.
01:40They are the oldest people ever to run for president,
01:44breaking by only four years the record that they set!
01:49However, Stewart's return was still a ratings hit.
01:52The Daily Show viewership shot up to 1.85 million viewers,
01:56the biggest audience for the show in nearly six years.
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