If you’re not familiar with the show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver then hello and welcome, you’re in for a real treat.
Oliver has a weekly Sunday show that offers an irreverent yet stinging attack on many of America’s follies, despite the fact that he has the accent of a nerdy British software engineer.
John had held off on a full-blown Trump assault for as long as he could, but eventually he decided to sharpen his talons and the result is quite beautiful. But it’s 22 minutes I hear you moan – just ride it out and you won’t be disappointed.
Here’s Vox with some of the highlights, listing the traits Trump supporters love about their leader and Oliver’s rebuttals:
- “He tells it like it is”: “Does he? Because the website PolitiFact checked 77 of his statements, and rated 76 percent of them as varying degrees of false.”
- “He is truly independent and not beholden to anyone”: “While it is true that he hasn’t taken corporate money, the implication that he has personally spent $20 to $25 million is a bit of a stretch, because what he’s actually done is loaned his own campaign $17.5 million and has just personally given just $250,000. And that’s important, because up until the convention he can pay himself back for the loan with campaign funds.”
- “He’s tough”: “For a tough guy, he has incredibly thin skin. Back in 1988, Spy magazine called him a short-fingered vulgarian. And ever since, the editor Graydon Carter says he receives envelopes from Trump, always with a photo on which he circled his hand to highlight the length of his fingers, usually with a note reading, ‘See, not so short!'”
- “His success”: “While yes, he has made more money than most of us will make in a lifetime, not only did he get a multimillion-dollar inheritance from his father, but he’s also lost a huge amount.”
If you made it through that annihilation you’ll probably want to check out donaldjdrumpf.com for a chuckle.
#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain again America.
[source:vox]
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