As President Donald Trump prepares Individuals for financial hardship amid a looming commerce battle, Final Week Tonight‘s John Oliver zeroed in on the GOP chief’s a number of feedback about dolls, which happened as he enlisted a careless and ever-changing metaphor to debate how ladies of various ages could now want to purchase wherever between two to 5 dolls as an alternative of 30 or 37.
“Each single approach this man refers to ladies makes my pores and skin need to flip inside out,” the political comedian quipped. “That mentioned, I did additionally need to see him maintain going there, simply to see what number of variations of ages and numbers he might cycle via.”
Oliver then rattled off one in all his signature high-speed asides, mimicking how the president would possibly proceed upping the ages of the women talked about (“45-year-old lady, however nonetheless younger at coronary heart”) and rising the doll depend (“12 dolls, 12 Apostles, 12 Days of Christmas, 12 Indignant Males — Henry Fonda, nice man, proper? The opposite males — very indignant, very indignant males, that’s what we’ve received to get out of this nation that’s coming over illegally. Or you already know what — 13 dolls, that’s my ultimate provide.”)
After reiterating his preliminary “frivolous” feedback a second time throughout an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, through which he posited that an 11-year-old “lovely child lady” wouldn’t want so many dolls, Trump’s second reiteration aboard Air Drive One upped the figurative doll-owning age to fifteen.
“He thinks 15-year-old ladies play with dolls. Has he ever met a 15-year-old lady? That’s a dumb query, in fact he has — he was buddies with Jeffrey Epstein,” Oliver mentioned, flashing an image of the 2 on display screen and eliciting big exclamations of “whoa” from the viewers.
Elsewhere, Oliver additionally threw a zinger at Jeanine Pirro following her appointment as interim U.S. lawyer in Washington, D.C., calling her the “meanest drunk aunt.” He additionally made some lighthearted jokes concerning the election of Chicago-hailing Robert Prevost to the pinnacle of the Catholic Church as Pope Leo XIV.
“So should you’re questioning: ‘Is Trump’s silly commerce battle about to harm lots of people?’ Nicely, is the pope Catholic and now additionally some man named Bob from Chicago? The reply is, clearly, sure,” he mentioned.
