John Oliver is aware of the entire timeline on X, previously Twitter, is mired in discourse within the aftermath of the explosive (and murderous) finale of The White Lotus Season 3, and given his present’s shared residence at HBO, he’s determined to money in on the dialog with an apt dig at President Donald Trump.
Whereas enjoying a clip of POTUS addressing his anti-trans laws in relation to sports activities, the place he additionally remarked quite a few occasions about how the ladies athletes stood behind him had been “stunning” and that such speech may “finish” his political profession, the Final Week Tonight host drew some not-so-sunny comparisons.
“To be utterly honest to Trump, I’ll say, his understanding of girls’s points is corresponding to his understanding of overseas coverage, home coverage, commerce, the economic system, the idea of consent, human empathy and all however considered one of his youngsters’s names,” he started.
Persevering with, Oliver added, “Trump leads each dialog with a psychosexual power that makes The White Lotus seem like the Teletubbies. Oh, I’m sorry, did the incest storyline [between Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola’s on-screen brothers] hassle you? Donald Trump joked about courting his personal daughter on The View. He mentioned that on a f—ing morning present. Not less than White Lotus has the decency to air within the evenings, proper right here, on the incest community,” depicting posters of Sport of Thrones and Home of the Dragon, each HBO sequence.
The feedback got here amid Oliver’s section on the GOP’s “obsession” with trans athletes and banning them in sports activities, particularly by way of laws aimed on the college degree.
Elsewhere on this system, Oliver addressed J.Ok. Rowling’s tweet during which she slammed him for his views supporting trans rights, saying, “It feels a bit bizarre to catch that a lot warmth from the creator of Harry Potter, particularly after I clearly seem like what would have occurred to him in the event that they left him in that cabinet for the remainder of his life,” and that he “stands by every part I mentioned” within the episode in query.
