Jon Stewart broke down why he never confuses “cultural power with power” while discussing President Donald Trump’s attacks on late-night TV with former first lady Michelle Obama.

The “Daily Show” host, in a discussion with Obama on her “IMO” podcast with her brother Craig Robinson, quipped that the former first lady never tried to have him arrested or taken off the air after she mentioned her appearance on his program in 2012.

“It’s a function of a confidence in your worldview,” Stewart said.

“There is nothing more fragile than someone who wields real power, who feels that that power will be diminished by satire or commentary. It’s kind of a shocking fragility, for someone who wants to project alpha male dominance and yet be so incredibly wrecked by something that happens at 12:30 at night.”

“I mean, he’s made all of our shows relevant again in a weird way.”

The comments from Stewart — while rarely the focus of Trump’s attacks — arrive as the president continues to wage his war against late-night comedians.

President Donald Trump, speaking in the Oval Office on July 24, continues to take aim at late-night comedians.

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In April, Trump’s Federal Communications Commission launched an unprecedented early review of ABC broadcast licenses, a probe that ABC’s parent company Disney says is an act of retaliation against programming the administration doesn’t like.

Disney has since sued the FCC in an effort to block the review, with the company’s lawsuit citing FCC chair Brendan Carr’s talk of doing things “the easy way or the hard way” with broadcasters after Kimmel’s comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Carr, a Project 2025 contributor who sought to use the FCC to punish broadcasters deemed unfair toward the president, told Politico last month that he doesn’t view the commission as the “speech police” before arguing that broadcasters have an obligation to advance “public interest.”