--- title: Jon Stewart on Donald Trump Twitter War Video Stand Up MSG description: Jon Stewart spared no words and suffered no fools when he took to the stage at the Stand Up For Heroes benefit, talking about Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/4555173/jon-stewart-donald-trump-twitter-stand-up/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-02T18:17:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:19.670Z og:title: Watch Jon Stewart Slam Donald Trump For Their Twitter Beef og:description: "Vote wisely this November." og:url: https://time.com/4555173/jon-stewart-donald-trump-twitter-stand-up/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Jon Stewart Slam Donald Trump For Their Twitter Beef twitter:description: "Vote wisely this November." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Jon Stewart Turn His Twitter Beef With Donald Trump Into a Stand-Up Routine  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 2, 2016 6:17 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 2, 2016 6:17 PM UTC [Jon Stewart](http://time.com/4418809/jon-stewart-late-show-stephen-colbert/) [spared no words](http://time.com/4412521/donald-trump-jon-stewart-stephen-colbert/) when he took the stage for a stand-up set at the Woodruff Foundation’s 10th annual Stand Up for Heroes Benefit on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. The [former late night maverick](http://time.com/3704244/jon-stewart-the-daily-show-leaving/) devoted the bulk of his set to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. In particular, [Stewart let us know how he really felt about a memorably heated Twitter beef with Trump](http://time.com/4418809/jon-stewart-late-show-stephen-colbert/), which had started when Trump [declared on Twitter](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/327076720425451523), “I promise you, I’m much smarter than Jonathan Leibowitz, I mean Jon Stewart, who by the way is totally overrated.” Stewart then went on to detail the two men’s Twitter exchanges in meticulous detail, which included a truly creative use of an expletive and a clown comparison by the comedian towards the real estate mogul. He then cautioned the audience to “vote wisely this November.” You can watch Stewart sound off on the Republican nominee in the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4555173/jon-stewart-donald-trump-twitter-stand-up/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4555173/jon-stewart-donald-trump-twitter-stand-up/"},"headline":"Watch Jon Stewart Turn His Twitter Beef With Donald Trump Into a Stand-Up Routine","datePublished":"2016-11-02T18:17:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:19.670Z","description":"\"Vote wisely this November.\"","url":"https://time.com/4555173/jon-stewart-donald-trump-twitter-stand-up/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","twitter","Election 2016","Donald Trump","Culture","Jon Stewart"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4555173/jon-stewart-donald-trump-twitter-stand-up/","name":"Watch Jon Stewart Turn His Twitter Beef With Donald Trump Into a Stand-Up Routine"}}]}] ```