Stewart was left wondering if Trump had been doing a little research of his own.

“Maybe Trump’s already taken them, given how intensely he focused on the signing of this bill,” Stewart said. “I mean, he signed the shit out of this bill.”

Here’s the moment Stewart was referring to:

“Hey, man. You ever really looked at your signature on weed?” Stewart asked.

The host called the bill a rare “good thing” from Trump, but couldn’t get past that signature.

“It was weird as shit the way he signed that. It was like, it was weird as shit,” he said. “Like, I’m looking at that signature right now. Does that even say Donald Trump? The last name is longer than his first name!”

President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order in the Oval Office on April 18, 2026.

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“It looks like it says Lynyrd Skynyrd,” Stewart said while noting that Trump’s last name seems to have “too many letters.”

“I would make sure this executive order is even legal because it appears to have been signed off by David Hasselhoff,” he concluded.

But Stewart spent most of the opening segment looking at Trump’s war with Iran ― and his different ways of spinning its progress, or lack thereof.

Check it out in his Monday night “Daily Show” monologue: