On the latestLast Week Tonight, John Oliver returned to the topic of President Donald Trump’s planned border wall between the United States and Mexico, which he has been discussingsince the beginning of his 2016 campaign. Oliver played a clip of Trump outlining his reasoning behind its construction, and reminded viewers …
Read More »John Oliver Examines Whitewashed U.S. History in the Wake of George Floyd
John Oliver spends much of his time on the Last Week Tonight discussing the inequalities currently present in American systems. But on Sunday night — with the country still reeling from the killing of George Floyd — he devoted an entire segment to U.S. history and how whitewashed the teaching …
Read More »John Oliver Blasts British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: 'He Is a Liar'
Challenging the numerous headlines cementing newly elected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “Britain’s Donald Trump,” John Oliver examined the crucial differences between the two politicians on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. “Given that Britain’s new leader is a clownish figure with silly hair and a passing relationship with the truth, …
Read More »John Oliver's Take on Mueller Report: 'Incompetence and Obedience' Saved Trump
John Oliver unpacked the most crucial details of the long-awaited Mueller report on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, continuing the saga he once-dubbed “Stupid Watergate.” He focused the segment on “two main factors that may have saved” President Trump: “incompetence when it comes to conspiracy with Russia and disobedience when it …
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