“It’s a function of a confidence in your worldview,” Stewart said.
“There is nothing more fragile than someone who wields real power, who feels that that power will be diminished by satire or commentary. It’s kind of a shocking fragility, for someone who wants to project alpha male dominance and yet be so incredibly wrecked by something that happens at 12:30 at night.”
“I mean, he’s made all of our shows relevant again in a weird way.”
The comments from Stewart — while rarely the focus of Trump’s attacks — arrive as the president continues to wage his war against late-night comedians.
Disney has since sued the FCC in an effort to block the review, with the company’s lawsuit citing FCC chair Brendan Carr’s talk of doing things “the easy way or the hard way” with broadcasters after Kimmel’s comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.