John Oliver delivered his first episode of “last week tonight”, because Donald Trump took on a gloomy assessment of how things are going so far: “This is all Bonkers, frightening and dark absurd.”
“The next four years will feel incredibly shit,” the comic predicted 12 premiere of his show on Sunday at the end of the season. “The potential for pain is devastating, just like the enormous amount of it that has already been distributed.”
“We see rich, powerful men use the government’s levers for their personal benefit, as well as their personal grievances, and we are governed by people who think that a good public policy consists of: ‘Cut financing to someone who is not me who is not Me is, “” Make it illegal to name people who are different from me “and” fuck it, let’s steal Canada while we’re busy. ” ‘
Oliver used his monologue to unpack some of the most shocking developments from the Trump administration in the past four weeks: billions of dollars freeze to federal aid, stating the Ministry of Government, led by Elon Musk, efficiency to lower wasteing expenses; threaten to punish federal employees who do not report diversity, fairness and inclusion initiatives that take place in their departments; And the two largest trading partners in the country with tariff threats.
Trump also tried to start in Canada, Mass -Deportation -effortsand searched for limiting gender -confirming health care in the midst of a flurry of executive orders Targeting of transmensen.
“It’s worse than we thought, and we thought a lot about it,” said Oliver. “To say the least, things don’t look great now, but defeat is a self -fulfilling prophecy.”
He called on viewers to show solidarity with federal workers, pointing to an op-ed written by a former federal public prosecutor, Brendan Ballou, remembered How protests and public outrage in 2017 against Trump’s controversial travel ban “encouraged us and gave the knowledge that we actually worked in the public interest” when Ballou and his colleagues worked to limit the scope of the order that focused on countries of The Muslim majority.
“Advocacy on the outside made advocacy on the inside possible,” wrote Ballou.
Oliver said that Insight emphasized how support and solidarity ‘really matter’.
“This is definitely not the time to look away and say,” This is what you voted for “and turn your back on, especially if there are many good people who work importantly with whom you participate in who you can do Participate and support, “Oliver said.
In the coming years, the strip added, “and to get this, we must find a balance between hell of hell of what is going on and find the joy that can support us.”