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You're listening to Comedy Central.

From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show with your host, Jon Stewart.

Jon Stewart (2:24)

And later on, we are going to be joined by Governor Spencer Cox of Utah. He's got a new book out on how we can, as a nation, disagree more agreeably. And I will be the first to tell him to go f*** himself.

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That can't be what's written. Hold on.

Jon Stewart (2:50)

Folks, I am re-energized. We've been gone for the month.

For the entire month of August. I assume the same for yourselves. Now that we are all, as a country, synced up on the French calendar, we all took the month off. Because I think we learned from experience. August is a dead zone. People are on vacation. The news ticker slows to a crawl. Just a series of Black Bear and swimming pool videos.

So I checked out, rejuvenated. Just out of a kind of morbid curiosity, did I miss anything at all?

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President Trump rolling back decades of childhood vaccine guidance.

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Threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center.

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Trump's attack on mail-in voting. Suggesting that he'll take over the midterm elections.

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President Trump siding with North Korea.

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Crisis at sea aboard the USS Lincoln.

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Conditions so bad, there are reports of sailors attempting to jump overboard. Trump threatening to wipe out Iran. Threatening to bomb Oman, a US ally. Saying that he was going to use the US military against the bond market.

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No!

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Oh, no! I'm old again!

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I'm old again!

Jon Stewart (4:08)

I love that we thought I needed a beard to look old again.

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Oh, no!

SPEAKER_5 (4:16)

Pretty!

Jon Stewart (4:19)

God, it never ends with this dude, Trump. I've never seen one person work so much and fix so little.

It's exhausting in a way that's difficult to articulate, which is why one of the stories from this past August did resonate with me so much more deeply, and that's the plight of the USS Lincoln.

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5,000 US sailors and marines serving on the USS Lincoln stepping on dry land for the first time in more than nine months. The once gleaming aircraft carrier docking in Thailand after 286 days at sea, covered in rust after a record-setting deployment.

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Do you see it? Look!

Look!

Jon Stewart (5:04)

Look carefully.

SPEAKER_5 (5:06)

Do you see?

Jon Stewart (5:07)

Let's do the before. Let's do the after. Do you see the metaphor?

This ship, a symbol of American might, ingenuity, technical know-how, patriotic determination, laid low by prolonged exposure to relentless corrosive elements, reckless mismanagement.

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This ship!

Jon Stewart (5:30)

Do you see?

It's not the USS Lincoln. It's not. It's just US. It's just. It's us.

We're the ship. This is what we look like as Americans inside after 18 months of this presidency. Worn. And by the way, we don't get the one-week Thai sex trip to try and paper it all over. We just have to suck it up. I want you to look at the picture of this rusted ship. Look at it! Don't look away. I want you to think about the visible, tangible, actual, indisputable, factual signs of corrosion on this ship. This is the president discussing it.