Sorry oatmeal raisin cookie fans.
John Oliver parsed the 2016 presidential candidates’ scandals during “Last Week Tonight,” Sunday night, and said that if raisins in a cookie were scandals, electing Donald Trump would be like eating nothing but raisins for years.
Oliver outlined each candidates more notable “scandals,” including Hillary Clinton’s Whitewater, her private email servers, and Benghazi, and Trump’s taxes, his foundation’s dealings and his business practices.
The “Last Week Tonight” host critiqued both candidates for their failings, but made one thing clear: Clinton’s scandals have been nothing compared to Trump’s.
“This campaign has been dominated by scandals, but it is dangerous to think that there is an equal number on both sides,” Oliver said. “And you can be irritated by some of Hillary’s―that is understandable―but you should then be fucking outraged by Trump’s.”
Oliver made the point that while Clinton has perhaps more flaws than the average politician, Trump has far, far more.
“Ethical failings in a politician are like raisins in a cookie,” Oliver said. “They shouldn’t be there. They disgust people. But most politicians have at least a few raisins.
“Hillary is a cookie like this one. She arguably has more raisins than average. There’s probably 10 of those little fuckers in there. But we all need to remember that when it comes to Donald Trump, this is the amount of raisins that he represents,” Oliver said, as raisins fell from the sky over him. “The man is a fucking raisin monsoon. He is ethically compromised to an almost unprecedented degree.”
Watch the full clip below via Last Week Tonight:
