Jon Stewart Slams President Trump’s ‘Perversion’ and ‘Corruption’ During Chat With Michelle Obama

Jon Stewart recently compared the Obamas’ time in the White House to President Donald Trump’s.

“I imagine for you and your family that it’s a surreal experience for you guys because of the effort that you put into building something up and to watch it be corrupted,” Stewart, 63, remarked on the Wednesday, August 26 episode of Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson‘s IMO podcast. “To have this perversion of leadership, I imagine, is especially difficult to digest. There’s a surreal quality to it.”

Stewart then pointed out that the former first lady, 62, and her husband, former President Barack Obama, “left money on the table,” joking that she could have had “a Michelle meme coin.”

The commander in chief, 80, and First Lady Melania Trump both have meme coins.

“I didn’t even know it was possible; there were so many things,” Michelle quipped, to which Stewart replied, “You guys didn’t do a pump-and-dump.”

The Becoming author laughed that she and Barack, 65, “could have had a Netflix deal a decade ago.”

“You could have had a weapons company! You could’ve sold missiles to yourself,” Stewart exclaimed before pointing out how Donald‘s sons, Don Jr. and Eric, “have a drone company,” referring to how they have backed defense company Powerus.

“You know, it’s the level of corruption that is, in some ways — maybe it’s doing a favor by making this, the current power structure and dynamic of this country untenable because of how explicitly corrupt,” the Emmy Award winner added.

Using women’s rights being taken away as an example, Michelle noted that “when things are OK it’s easier to take what you have for granted.”

“Our kids didn’t witness much of the struggle at all, right? They didn’t experience it. That’s the kind of growth you would hope for, for the country, that each generation, everything gets better and better and better,” she stated. “And that was actually happening. Until we [got] to a point where there’s a generation that didn’t even remember what was wrong in the first place, never saw it.”