John Oliver took goal at President Donald Trump and his more and more ‘sycophantic’ White Home press room briefings on Sunday night time’s (Might 18) episode of Final Week Tonight.
The late-night host touched on how Trump has been “stocking the press room with suck ups” and “managing to get the sycophantic questions he prefers” throughout his latest press briefings regardless of the Related Press being allowed again within the Oval Workplace.
“And even for those who haven’t observed that, he positively has,” Oliver stated earlier than throwing to a montage of the President responding to praise-heavy questions by saying, “I like this man.” In a single clip, Trump says, “I like this man, whoever the hell that’s.”
“That’s fairly humiliating,” Oliver responded. “And never simply because ‘I like this man, whoever the hell that’s,’ is nearly positively how Trump opened a toast at Eric’s [Trump] wedding ceremony.”
“It’s no coincidence that Trump’s been getting extra flattering questions,” the comic continued. “As a result of the White Home has more and more let far-right new retailers and influencers into press occasions.”
He then cited a Media Issues investigation, which discovered that 4 out of the 5 reporters most continuously referred to as on by Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, had been from right-wing retailers.
Oliver famous that a type of reporters was Cara Castronuova of Lindell TV, an outlet bankrolled by staunch Trump supporter and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. The host performed a clip of Castronuova asking the President about his “health plan” and the way he “appears more healthy than ever earlier than.”
“That’s an precise query a White Home reporter requested,” Oliver added. “And every little thing about that’s unsettling.”
Earlier within the present, Oliver confirmed what occurs when reporters ask questions that maintain Trump accountable. When an ABC Information reporter requested what the President would say to those that assume he shouldn’t settle for Qatar’s $400 million airplane as a present, Trump slammed the journalist, saying he ought to be “embarrassed” and that ABC is “faux information.”
“That’s fairly hostile,” Oliver stated earlier than happening a tangent about an ABC present he loves, “although I truly agree ABC ought to be embarrassed, simply not for that solely professional query, however for the truth that, as of taping, they nonetheless haven’t renewed Physician Odyssey for Season 2.”
The British comedian was referencing Ryan Murphy’s maritime medical drama, which stars Joshua Jackson as Dr. Max Bankman, a health care provider working aboard luxurious cruise ship. ABC has but to resume the present for a second season.
“What the f*** are you doing ABC?” Oliver continued. “It’s horny ER on a ship. It’s The Pitt with sharks. It’s bought — and I’m not even gonna try to beat their tagline on this — ‘huge deck power.’”
“In its pilot episode alone, it featured a water slide damage, somebody overdosing on shrimp and this,” he added, taking part in a clip from the sequence through which a passenger suffers a penile fracture.” Are you not entertained?!”
He added, “How is ABC renewing reveals referred to as The Rookie and Will Trent, whose premise is outwardly simply ‘regardless of being dyslexic, he’s change into a particular agent within the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’? What? However they haven’t renewed the one present courageous sufficient to reply the query: ‘What if sick however boat?’
“I shouldn’t complain in regards to the different reveals, I shouldn’t care {that a} present a couple of rookie is returning for its premise-defying eighth season, and I don’t begrudge any viewers members for sticking round to search out out if their favourite characters will or received’t Trent. All I’m saying, ABC’s The View has been on since 1997 and Physician Hotboat remains to be in limbo. You’re a shame ABC, your community is a catastrophe!”
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Final Week Tonight with John Oliver, Sundays, 11/10c, HBO