First, Jon Stewart said this about President Biden on Monday, January 12th:
"Did anyone film that?" Stewart asked. "Because if you're telling us behind the scenes, he's sharp and full of energy, and on top of it, and really in control, and leading, you should film that. That would be good to show to people, instead of a TikTok where he goes 'chocolate-chip cookie!'"
Lawrence responded first by titling the segment:
The governing will not be televised
Lawrence then gave the following history lesson to Jon Stewart about all that FDR did while he was essentially on his death bed to die just over two months after taking office for the last time:
But during that last year of his life, one, he would fall asleep at his desk sometimes in the middle of signing his name. He was also personally strategizing with consulting with Winston Churchill, General George Marshall, General Dwight Eisenhower, about the single largest military operation in history. The D-Day invasion in France in the middle of his reelection campaign. President Roosevelt had overruled the generals at various stages of the war prior to that. And as history shows, he chose a better course than they recommended when he was overruling them. They urged the D-Day invasion 2 years before the American military was actually capable and ready to do it. And old Franklin Roosevelt nodding off, sometimes overruled those younger minds. Those military experts, those generals and he saved American soldiers lives in the process.
Franklin Roosevelt was secretly managing the development of an atomic bomb and what they thought was a race with Nazi Germany to develop an atomic bomb. It was FDR who built the flawless structure of secrecy around the work Robert Oppenheimer was leading at Los Alamos to develop the most powerful weapon in history.
Franklin Roosevelt was designing the United Nations for the post-war period calling up the United Nations deciding which countries would be members of the Security Council which country should have veto power. He was calculating every day how to deal with the Soviet Union's dictator Joseph Stalin as an ally then in combat against Nazi Germany and how he would have to deal with Stalin as a potential adversary after World War, 2 nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union, the creation of Social Security system, which Franklin Roosevelt had done 10 years earlier, were all issues far more complex than every issue that passed through George Washington's mind or Abraham Lincoln's mind.
President, Franklin Roosevelt was making decisions about those issues sometimes in bed, sometimes when he was nodding off, always in his wheelchair when he was out of bed sometimes after a long nap, sometimes when just speaking itself took every bit of strength he had. And whenever President Roosevelt had to be awakened in the middle of the night with the latest battle news and World War 2, even as his physical energy was seeping out of him, he was always ready. He was always ready to do his job in the middle of the night. In the middle of the day, he was always ready to make the next decision.
Lawrence ended the segment with a mic drop statement directly to Stewart:
“And no, we don’t have any film of that.”
SLAM!!