John Oliver devoted a good portion of Final Week Tonight to unpacking President Donald Trump‘s tariff fiasco and the “monetary armageddon” he’s hell-bent on bringing about, starting the section by deeming the previous a number of information cycles an “emotional rollercoaster” for the reason that taxes’ implementation “with the assistance of the one dumbest chart in human historical past.”
Operating by way of the laundry record of headlines, the political host addressed POTUS’ Panican tweet, a time period he used to explain “a brand new get together primarily based on weak and silly folks.” Oliver jumped in to quip, “Although, I’d argue the weak and silly demo is, if something, approach overrepresented in authorities proper now,” flashing on the display screen pictures of Mike Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and JD Vance.
Addressing Trump’s declare that “international locations are kissing my ass” with regard to approaching the negotiating desk, Oliver replied, “I’m positive some have been fairly good to him, the identical approach you attempt to be good if you happen to abruptly discovered your self in the identical room as a monkey with a gun.”
With the tariffs now paused at a ten% price (save for China, which is seeing a 145% tariff and has just lately retaliated with its personal 125% price), Oliver acknowledged that as of taping on Saturday evening, he wasn’t positive how present his section could be, given the ever-evolving nature of commerce escalations so far.
Taking part in a clip of Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick explaining how the objective is to not make items unable to be produced or manufactured within the U.S. (similar to mangos) dearer, Oliver mentioned, “One of the simplest ways to make sure Trump does one thing is to inform him to not do it. He’s like a toddler, each as a result of his mind is unable to understand negations and in addition as a result of he has a brief torso, enormous head, all the time appears to be like like he’s about to fall over and received’t let anybody brush his hair.”
Oliver additionally received in a zinger in opposition to Vance for his “peasants” remark concerning Chinese language laborers, calling him a “cursed Cabbage Patch bitch” whose phrases have been “extremely insulting, particularly coming from the person who’s subsequent in line to run the nation if something have been to occur to Elon Musk.”
Doubling again to his authentic feedback, Oliver ridiculed Chuck Schumer’s liberation day tweet, saying, “We dodged a bullet, however the monkey nonetheless has a gun,” and calling for somebody to throw the Minority Senate Chief’s telephone “into the f—ing ocean.”
