'His entire career is a troll': Jon Stewart rips Trump over controversial 'Anti-Weaponization Fund'

Since the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed its 'Anti-Weaponization Fund', the Trump administration has come under fire from several sections, with many accusing President Donald Trump of engaging in corrupt practices. While Democrats have labelled the fund prepared to compensate citizens who were allegedly targeted unlawfully by the previous administration a "slush fund," many in the Republican ranks have also expressed their disagreement with the settlement that stemmed from a $10 billion lawsuit filed by Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization against the IRS.

Among the many critics of the DOJ move, 'The Daily Show' host Jon Stewart made a scathing rebuke of the President, accusing him of being a troll. In a clip shared from his 'The Weekly Show With John Stewart', Stewart berates the President, saying that he'd prefer Richard Nixon over Trump. "Watergate, yeah, like, wait a minute, you hired a couple of guys to break into a thing? That's adorable," Steward said, recalling the Spiro Agnew corruption scandal. "Spiro Agnew went down because of a slush fund. It was just a little hint of a slush fund that Nixon was using to fund other things. And I think Agnew got into, like, tax trouble because of it."

Agnew, who served as Vice President under Nixon, became the second vice president to resign, and the first to do so under a criminal investigation, in October 1973. "But think about that in comparison to $1.8 billion of taxpayer money! At least I think Nixon's slush fund was donors. At least it was straight-up bribes," Stewart said. "This is f*****g our money! Do we even have a Congress or a Court?"

Comparing current times to those described in George Orwell's masterpiece, 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', Stewart continued, "It's all Orwell. It's all a f**k you troll. Everything they're doing is a f**k you troll to us. This is against the weaponization of it. And it's patriotic. They're trolling us. His entire career is a troll." Orwell's dystopian novel served as a warning against totalitarian control, where the state wraps oppressive behavior in the guise of being patriotic.

Stewart also questioned the lack of transparency surrounding the anti-weaponization fund. When asked what he thinks would happen with the money, Stewart exclaimed, "Nothing!", adding that the money would go to people who "sprayed mace at police officers", with the administration "pretending" that "they're rewarding patriotism." "By the way, it's not transparent. They don't have to tell you where they're doing it, how they're deciding it, who's getting the money, none of it, before calling the Trump administration a "smash and grab on the American public, on the taxpayer."