John Oliver took aim – who else? — President Trump in Sunday’s opening segment Last week tonight.
The host began by showing footage of the White House demolition project Trump ordered in the East Wing so he could build a $250 million ballroom.
“These images are distressing, especially when you consider that it involves building a giant ballroom in a style best described as ‘Med Spa Versailles,'” Oliver joked. “And yet the demolition of the White House, a rather too stark metaphor, was just the tip of Trump’s iceberg this week.”
Oliver then showed a news report about Trump’s efforts to obtain $230 million from the Justice Department in compensation for federal investigations into his behavior.
“I have to say that Trump has said that he will donate any settlement, in his own words, to charity or charitable organizations.” something“, Oliver noted. “But incredibly, we’re still not done, as Trump also released an AI video of himself throwing shit at No Kings protesters, abandoned trade talks with Canada after seeing a TV ad he didn’t like, and authorized a $20 billion bailout of Argentina to ensure that [their] the experiment of libertarianism works.
Oliver said the “most shocking” decision Trump made in the past week was approving deadly military strikes against boats allegedly transporting drugs to the United States. So far, 40 “so-called narcoterrorists” have been killed, “even though the administration has not provided public evidence of its claims,” Oliver said. “Even if they have, I’ve looked enough I know [that] the typical approach to drug boats is to intercept them and arrest suspects, not to assassinate them without due process, and all that is bad enough before you learn” that Trump also plans to hit the cartels by land.
“Yes, he’s apparently planning to launch strikes against suspected drug traffickers in Venezuela without Congressional approval, saying ‘We’re just going to kill people. They’re going to be as good as dead,'” Oliver said, quoting Trump. “You know, the kind of chilling statement you’d expect to hear from a serial killer or the mastermind behind Panera Bread’s loaded lemonades, but not ideally from the President of the United States.”
Oliver concluded his opening segment by noting that his show was taped on Saturday, so “who knows what’s happened in the last 24 hours, but it’s already been a lot, because between tearing down the White House, trying to use the Justice Department to pay himself off, and proudly sharing AI footage of him literally shitting on Americans, the President has now also appointed himself judge, jury, and executioner of foreign citizens. And it’s infuriating that neither Congress nor the courts seem interested. putting an end to all of this because we are supposed to live in a country of checks and balances.
