John Oliver’s HBO show, Last Week Tonight, did something a little different this week. They went over the news of the last week. He is calling the scandals “Stupid Watergate” because it has:
“… All the potential ramifications of Watergate but where everyone involved is stupid and bad at everything.”
He set out to answer the following questions:
- “What the fuck is going on?”
- “How big a deal is this?”
- “Where do we go from here?”
- “Is this real life?”
Oliver started by breaking down all of the crazy news stories of the last week. He started with the story of Trump leaking highly classified intelligence to Russian officials who were visiting the Oval Office. This is code-word information that shouldn’t be shared with even your closest friends. In Trump’s case, Oliver points out that it is:
“…The golf caddie he calls Steve, even though his name is Doug, a bucket of KFC chicken and the ghost of Roger Ailes.”
Oliver also pointed out that Fox News doesn’t seem to think that these stories are particularly important, which is insane! Of course, as Oliver put it:
“A Fox host not being able to hold his doubts at bay for 48 hours is pretty much a canary in a coal mine, but then at this point, Donald Trump is basically waist deep in canaries.”
He also said this epic quip about Trump:
“It seems like with President Trump that he’s always approaching the end of the line, but it never seems to come, as if for him, and him alone, the end of the line is drawn by MC [bleeping] Escher.”
He then ended the segment talking about how much Trump doesn’t really seem to be enjoying the job. He talked about Trump’s 100-day interview in which he said that he preferred his old life and that he thought being president would be easier. To which, Oliver replied:
“I too, preferred my previous life, before he became president.”
Here is the entire segment:
Featured image via YouTube screenshot.
