Jon Stewart slams media speculation of Trump presidency 

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart criticized the media’s coverage of President-elect Trump’s incoming presidency, questioning whether some speculation is doing more harm than good.

“We don't know what's going to happen when Donald Trump takes over. Unfortunately, we can't see into the future, but we have to be prepared for all outcomes. I don't know how helpful it is to get us sh--ting our pants this much this early,” Stewart said during the opening minutes of his Thursday episode of the “The Weekly Show” podcast. 

“But I guess it's always important to stay on top of it,” he added. 

Right before interviewing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during the episode, Stewart knocked news coverage of Trump’s transition and argued that the country has been through a “tumultuous” year. 

“We appear to be in a transitional period where we are not sure about whether the ground we are standing on is solid, although the news media seems convinced that we are the Road Runner and the Coyote ,and the Coyote has run over the cliff, and we just looked down and realized there's nothing under our feet, and now we are plunging to our deaths,” Stewart joked in reference to the Looney Tunes animated characters. 

“Because the news media is always very circumspect,” he added. 

The political comic said it is a “strange thing” for him to observe president-elect Trump vowing to carry out some of the policy goals Stewart himself agrees with, considering he's a vocal critic of the incoming commander-in-chief. 

“It is for me, for someone who has kind of complained about wanting government to be more efficient and more responsive and making fundamental changes to see that mantle being carried out by a group of people that I don't necessarily trust to do it in a manner that is,” he said.

“But I guess that's what it is when you that's what losing elections is, man, you don't, you don't get to dictate anymore," he added."