‘Daily Show’ Host Jon Stewart Slashes Hand Open While Pounding Desk in Anti-DOGE Tirade

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart accidentally slashed his hand open when he smashed a coffee mug while pounding his desk during a tirade opposing the cuts in federal expenditures being uncovered by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Stewart started the segment acting as if he supported government cost cutting, but then suggested that it was corporate subsides and defense spending that should be cut, instead of the cuts that DOGE has identified to date. -- MORE...

John Stewart cut his hand, smashing his cup against the desk. Angered over the ex President, Biden.???? pic.twitter.com/EsC4h847m5

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