Jon Stewart said that the “arrogance” of President Donald Trump is to blame for the Republican washout in this week’s elections.

On the latest episode of his podcast “The Weekly Show,” the host and comedian pointed to one presidential social media post in particular, in which an AI-generated Trump dumped excrement on protestors from a jet, as indicative of the “dismissiveness” of the administration.

“I am not a political consultant,” Stewart said. “It may be that when the president of the United States tweets out a video of him dumping diarrhea on the American public, they find that slightly dismissive. And maybe that’s what all this is.”

Stewart left the granular breakdown to the consultants, preferring a simple story of cause and effect.

“I don’t know about the argument of populism v

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