Jon Stewart calls Donald Trump a ‘man-baby' and 'unrepentant narcissist'

'He has the physical countenance of a man, and a baby’s temperament and hands'

One of the cruel jokes of the 2016 election is that we have all of these absurd things happening, and the man best known for reveling in such things retired just as it was all getting off the ground.

Jon Stewart's exit from "The Daily Show" came Aug. 6, just more than a month into Donald Trump's campaign and just as a few of us were starting to rethink our assumptions about what a joke his candidacy was.

Stewart has been pretty quiet since then, but on Monday he joined former top Obama adviser David Axelrod on his "Axe Files" podcast. And Stewart had some pretty harsh words about both Trump and the woman he will almost definitely face in the general election, Hillary Clinton.

Trump got the worst of it.

“He is a man-baby." Stewart said. "He has the physical countenance of a man, and a baby’s temperament and hands."

Stewart also took on Clinton, whom he says he prefers to Trump basically because she's not Trump.

"What I think about Hillary Clinton, I imagine to be a very bright woman without the courage of her convictions, because I'm not even sure what they are," he said. "When I watch her campaign, it reminds me of ... Magic Johnson's talk show."

The reference there is to the NBA Hall of Famer's short-lived TV show which featured a host ill-suited to the medium but eager to be whatever people wanted him to be. "It never seemed authentic and real to his personality," Stewart added.

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