John Oliver returned Last week tonight to censure a host of actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration, including the demolition of the East Wing of the White House and continued boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea.
The late-night host described Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom — a $300 million project expected to be supported by private donations — “in a style best described as a ‘Versailles medspa.’
“The demolition of the White House, a metaphor which, on the contrary, is too grotesque,” he added.
Oliver also condemned ongoing military strikes against ships the government says are carrying drugs to the United States, which now total more than eight such attacks that have claimed more than 40 lives.
“The administration has not provided public evidence to support its claims, but even if it has, I have observed enough I “Be aware that the typical approach of drug boats is to intercept them and arrest suspects, not to murder them without due process,” the comic said.
Oliver also addressed Trump, telling reporters he was considering land strikes “equivalent to what’s happening by sea” in Venezuela, with the US president saying he would not seek a declaration of war from Congress but rather: “We’re just going to kill people.” They will be as good as dead.”
“The kind of chilling statement you’d expect to hear from a serial killer or the mastermind behind Panera Bread’s loaded lemonade,” Oliver remarked.
Returning to earlier in the program — when addressing the bizarre video filmed at IHOP of recently released and disgraced Congressman George Santos — Oliver said Trump had “appointed himself judge, jury and executioner of foreign citizens, and it’s infuriating that neither Congress nor the courts seem interested in stopping this because we’re supposed to live in a country of brakes and counterbalance, and if I may allow myself to quote the new IHOP speech. spokesperson, ‘Where’s my fucking check?’
