Because of President Trump’s AI-generated Star Wars publish on Could the Fourth, The Day by day Present’s Jon Stewart hilariously felt the necessity to clarify the character of crimson lightsabers and the way they’re created by Sith Lords. Over the galactic vacation weekend, the White Home’s official socials posted a picture of the President to have a good time Could the Fourth (and take some pictures on the radical left). Nonetheless, the picture itself sparked some humorous confusion from these clearly extra accustomed to the galaxy far, distant.

On the identical day President Trump introduced his intentions to by some means tariff films, the White Home posted a picture of Trump as what was believed to be a Jedi Knight in honor of Star Wars Day. Nonetheless, the lightsaber in his hand was crimson, signifying an allegiance to the darkish facet of the Power and suggesting as a substitute that Trump was in actual fact a Sith Lord. Naturally, a number of Star Wars followers had been fast to level out this blunder from the White Home, together with The Day by day Present’s Jon Stewart. Not solely that, however Stewart went even additional by explaining how crimson lightsabers are created by the Sith within the established canon:

Whereas performed for laughs, Stewart’s clarification is fairly fleshed out and correct to what’s been established within the Star Wars canon, making the irony of the White Home’s mistake even funnier.

Jon Stewart Is Proper On The Cash About The Sith And Crimson Lightsabers

Making Issues Fairly Ironic…

As seen in notable moments like 2017’s Darth Vader collection, Jedi Survivor, and most just lately in 2024’s The Acolyte, a crimson lightsaber is certainly created by making a kyber crystal bleed. That is completed when somebody corrupted by the darkish facet, sometimes a Sith, pours all of their rage, ache, and hate into the crystal. This turns the blade a sinister crimson because it turns into a vessel of the darkish facet and an extension of the wielder’s darkest feelings.

It is not shocking within the slightest that Jon Stewart is aware of this truth about Sith lightsabers, and his additional feedback about having a group of Star Wars motion figures are doubtless true as effectively. In spite of everything, Stewart is the canonical namesake for Obi-Wan Kenobi’s homeworld, having as soon as requested George Lucas the place the Jedi Grasp got here from and receiving the hilarious, and but now canon, response: “Stewjon.” Whereas the error from the White Home has generated some fairly humorous reactions on-line contemplating the unintended which means relating to President Trump’s true motives, Stewart’s is by far among the finest.

Stewart additionally theorizes who the second Sith Lord working with Darth Trump could be as “there are always two” (contenders embrace Putin, Kim Jong-un, James Corden, and Elmo).

Supply: Instagram/The Day by day Present

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