Jon Stewart mocked Donald Trump's newly unveiled 22-foot gold statue at his Florida golf resort on the May 11 episode of The Daily Show. Stewart joked the monument was not the biblical "golden calf" but "a full-grown cow," complete with groaning noises and mooing sounds for comedic effect. The segment was uploaded to YouTube under the title, "Hantavirus Is Not the Next Covid, But Try Telling That to the News Media." Stewart extended the joke by linking the statue to biblical idolatry. "If it was, God would probably be punishing us the same way he did in The Bible with a plague.