Jon Stewart hit back at a major Republican talking point about the ongoing government shutdown, squeezing in a below-the-belt dig at President Trump while he was at it.

Stewart argued on The Daily Show Monday night that the Democrats’ demands—to prevent health insurance premiums from rising for millions of Americans—are fair, and that it’s not Democrats who decided to “inflict the pain” of the shutdown on Americans as House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed last week.

Stewart showed a clip of Johnson saying about the prolonged shutdown, “The president takes no pleasure in this.”

“Bulls--t!” Stewart replied. “The president takes no pleasure in this? The president takes only pleasure.”

Stewart joked, “Given the president’s vascular condition, this might be the only thing keeping him hard.”

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