Jon Stewart is not backing down on his criticisms of President Joe Biden . In Thursday’s episode of his “Weekly Show” podcast, he compares Biden to Donald Trump, which features “ Pod Save America ” hosts Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor and CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers. The four analyzed Biden’s performance in his recent debate with Trump as well as his subsequent refusal to consider stepping down as the Democratic Party’s nominee for the November election.
Stewart has said he is not necessarily joining the call for Biden to step down, but that the president should at least be open to discussing it. It would be better, Stewart says in the episode, “if Joe Biden came out and said, ‘Look, I understand where I’m at in my lifespan and cycle and what I do. Here’s how this government works,’ rather than coming out and becoming Trumpian and saying, ‘You think someone else could hold NATO together? They could never.
Only God can tell me to get out of the race.'” (During his recent ABC News interview , Biden said, “If the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race,’ I’d get out of the race. The Lord Almighty’s not coming down.
”) “If he were to come out and say, ‘Here’s my team. Here’s how we hold the line’ — but we’re not seeing any of that,” Stewart continues on the podcast. “Nothing that’s been done inspires any confidence, other than the fatalism of, ‘It is what it is, and this is what we’re st.
