John Oliver entered the fray of the 2016 presidential campaign on Sunday night’s episode of “Last Week Tonight” by finally talking Donald Trump.
In a nearly 22-minute-long segment, Oliver talked about Trump’s fragile ego (and allegedly small hands), his failed business ventures, propensity to threaten ligation and his “shitty lifestyle brand.”
Trump constantly changes policy positions, occasionally advocating for torture, Oliver said.
“He might say he was joking or he’s changed his mind about any of these things. And private individuals are allowed to change their minds, we all do it. But when he’s sworn in as President on Jan. 20, 2017, on that day, his opinions are going to matter. You will remember that date because it’s the one time-travellers from the future will come back to to try and stop the whole thing from happening,” Oliver said.
Watch the clip via HBO:
Note to self: Don’t piss off John Oliver.
Good segment with many valid criticisms, and of course Trump should never be president. But the one point of Oliver’s which fell flat for me was the notion that Cruz and Rubio are better because at least we know what they’ll do, while Trump is incoherent. The problem is that we know Cruz and Rubio’s policies will be uniformly terrible! How is “you never know whether you will get a box of candy or a bag of shit” worse than “you know that you will always get a bag of shit”?
I didn’t hear that the same way as you do. I heard that voters are better off knowing what a candidate’s plans are, than assuming them to be something on which the candidate’s spoken out of both sides of his mouth.
Make Donald Drumpf Again.
A long clip, but worth every second of it.
According to Google Translate, the German words “Drumpf” and “Trumpf” are interchangeable each with the other as well as with the word “Flugzeugrumpf”.
Make Donald Drumpt Again, Or At Least Flugzeugrumpf.
Call Himf Flugzeugrumpf Or Else Call Himf Drumpfilstiltskin And Be Donfe with himf.