text: Jon Stewart returned to late-night on Tuesday to offer a blistering assessment of the first 10 days of the Trump presidency during an appearance on CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” 
   
   “We have never faced this before: Purposeful, vindictive chaos,” Stewart said. 
   
   Stewart and Colbert giggled through a segment that featured Stewart channeling Trump reading new executive orders to come. The longtime friendship and comedic collaboration between Stewart and Colbert was evident as the bit veered from skewering Trump to a quick homage to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon (via Carnac the Magnificent) and a quick nod to Jerry Lewis. 
   
   The first of Stewart’s three executive orders declared the official language of the United States to be “bull—-” — perhaps a call out to Stewart’s warning in his August 2015 sign-off from “The Daily Show.” 
   
   Another was to demand that China send America its Great Wall “COD, so Mexico has to sign for it,” Stewart said. 
   
   The final order affirmed “that I, Donald J. Trump, am exhausting,” Stewart said. “The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the public.” 
   
   With his presence and his incisive observations, Stewart seemed to try to reassure the audience that the country is strong enough to survive the upheaval already evident during Donald Trump’s 10-day tenure in the White House. He called for “relentless stamina and vigilance and every institutional check and balance this country can muster” to contain the President, given the policy agenda and behavior demonstrated since his Jan. 20 inauguration. 
   
   If the nation survives Trump’s reign without a major calamity, it will have “demonstrated the greatness of America, just not in the way I thought it would,” Stewart said, speaking as Trump. 
   
   Stewart has popped up a few times on “The Late Show” since Colbert took the reins in September 2015. Stewart is an executive producer of “Late Show” but is not a hands-on presence. 
   
   Stewart’s visit to “Late Show” raises the question about the status of his deal to deliver topical short-form content for HBO’s various platforms. He signed a wide-ranging production pact with HBO in 2015 after ending his nearly 17-year run on Comedy Central’s “Daily Show.” 
   
   Sources close to the situation said Stewart continues to work on a venture to produce timely animated programming using cutting-edge technology. Fans had expected that Stewart would use the HBO platform to comment on the raucous 2016 presidential election, but no material to date has surfaced. Sources emphasized that the technology is new and the production infrastructure is still being assembled. But Stewart remains committed to the HBO deal. ||||| Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart returned to late night television on Tuesday for a scathing review of President Trump's first 10 days in office. 
   
   "We have never faced this before: Purposeful, vindictive chaos," Stewart told Late Show host Stephen Colbert in a segment that had both audience members and Colbert keeling over in laughter. 
   
   Dressed in his best Trump outfit — "super long tie, dead animal on head" — Stewart fired off what he speculated will be the President's next three executive actions. 
   
   The first order of business focused on Trump's controversial proposal to construct a wall along the country's southern border. 
   
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   Jon Stewart had both Stephen Colbert and audience members keeling over in laughter. (Michele Crowe/CBS) 
   
   "I hereby direct that to secure our border, China shall immediately and without hesitation send us their wall," Stewart announced. "Done. Boom!" 
   
   The next was to change the nation's official language to "bulls--t." 
   
   "I, Donald J. Trump, have instructed my staff to speak only in bulls--t," Stewart said. "Bulls--t all the time. Immersion, it's the only way to be fluent." 
   
   The final executive order simply declared "I, Donald J. Trump, am exhausting." 
   
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   "It has been eleven days, Stephen," Stewart sighed. "Eleven f-----g days. Eleven. The presidency is supposed to age the President, not the public. The reason that I am exhausting is that every instinct and fiber of my pathological self-regard calls me to abuse of power." 
   
   In a sobering tone, Stewart wrapped up the segment by addressing the American public directly. 
   
   "No one action will be adequate, all action will be necessary, and if we do not allow Donald Trump to exhaust our fight and somehow come out of this presidency calamity-less and constitutionally, partially intact, then I, Donald J. Trump, will have demonstrated the greatness of America, just not the way I thought I was going to," Stewart concluded to thundering applause.
target: – "We have never faced this before: purposeful, vindictive chaos," Jon Stewart said Tuesday, summing up President Trump's first 10 days in office during an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Impersonating Trump with a "dead animal on head" and a tie reaching the floor, the former Daily Show host read out Trump's next executive orders. The first: "China shall immediately and without hesitation send us their wall." The second: The official language of the United States is now "bulls--t." The third: "I, Donald J. Trump, am exhausting" because "every instinct and fiber of my pathological self-regard calls me to abuse of power." The segment had Stewart, Colbert, and the audience in stitches—particularly when the aforementioned dead animal appeared to try to crawl down Stewart's face—but Stewart chose to end it on a serious note, per the New York Daily News. He called on America's "relentless stamina and vigilance and every institutional check and balance this country can muster" to restrain Trump, per Variety, noting, "If we do not allow Donald Trump to exhaust our fight and somehow come out of this presidency calamity-less and constitutionally, partially intact, then I, Donald J. Trump, will have demonstrated the greatness of America, just not the way I thought I was going to."