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Jon Stewart joins Stephen Colbert to mock Donald Trump's executive orders

'I Donald J Trump am exhausting. It has been eleven days. Eleven f**king days'

Jack Shepherd
Wednesday 01 February 2017 10:20 GMT
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Jon Stewart mocks Donald Trump with a new set of executive orders

Donald Trump has been President for 12 days. In less than two weeks, the Republican has begun ripping apart Obamacare, signed off on a controversial abortion law, and stopped citizens of seven predominantly-Muslim countries entering the US.

Having consistently spoken out against Trump, Stephen Colbert addressed the recent executive orders on The Late Show, inviting a special guest along, Jon Stewart.

The ex-Daily Show host has appeared on Colbert’s show numerous times to criticise Trump, this time deciding to wear an extremely long tie and dead animal on his head.

“I thought this is how men dress now,” Stewart told Colbert when asked whether this was his Trump impression. “The President sets men’s fashion. I saw the inauguration: super-long tie, dead animal on head. Boom. Done. Boom. It’s the best.”

The pair began to read out ‘future executive orders’ Trump will announce in the coming days, the first of which regarded the Mexican wall.

“By the power invested in me by the constitution, I Donald J Jonas Jameson Trump, hereby direct that to secure our border, China - China - shall immediately and without hesitation send us their wall. Done. Boom. Done. Boom. China’s wall sent to us. Boom.”

The second executive, written as an encyclical, declared America now has an official language, but not English: “The new official language of the United States is bullshit… I Donald J Trump have told my staff to speak in bulls**t all the time.”

Finally, they get to their last executive order: “I Donald J Trump am exhausting. It has been eleven days, Stephen. Eleven f**king days. Eleven. The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the public.”

“And the reason that I, Donald J Trump, am exhausting is that every instinct and fibre of my pathological self-regard calls me to abuse of power.” Watch the full clip below.

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Late last year, Stewart rejected the idea of calling all trump voters racists, saying: “Not everybody that voted for Trump is a racist. I don’t give a f**k what any of you say to me. You can yell it at me, you can tweet it at me. They’re not all racists.”

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