Overview
- Trump amplified a Daily Show clip on Truth Social Thursday that showed Jon Stewart thanking him for doing veterans “a solid.”
- Stewart’s comments came during Monday’s show, where he praised the move and joked about Trump stumbling over the drug name ibogaine before saying, “You did a good thing.”
- The executive order, signed Saturday in the Oval Office, directs the FDA and DEA to craft a patient access path for investigational psychedelics and to speed reviews for drugs with Breakthrough Therapy status.
- The plan also ties HHS and the FDA to VA research and data sharing and sets aside $50 million for state studies of ibogaine, a hallucinogen explored for PTSD and addiction.
- Trump’s repost featured a shortened clip that omitted Stewart’s later jabs, according to LateNighter’s review of the segment.