John Oliver took purpose at Donald Trump throughout the Sunday, April 6, episode of Final Week Tonight With John Oliver. The speak present host mentioned the destructive results Trump’s tariffs have had on the economic system, and commenced by mocking him for referring this period to the “golden age of America.”
“If you happen to imply golden age, the best way we have a tendency to explain the final decade earlier than an previous particular person dies, then sure, it seems like we’re very a lot within the golden age of American proper now,” he joked.
He then confirmed a clip of the president holding up a small chart and explaining that he initially had an even bigger one however couldn’t use it due to the wind. “That’s sensible,” Oliver famous. “And it exhibits they actually considered every part which may go incorrect whereas saying their plan to shoot the economic system within the dick. Though, I’ll level out, if wind was an issue there, and we checked with specialists on this, the White Home does have an ‘inside’ half.”
He continued to handle the chart including, “Sadly, that chart is ridiculous for a lot of causes. For one factor, it options an estimate of tariffs charged to the USA by different international locations that nobody might work out till a monetary journalist realized it was simply how a lot we export to that nation, minus how a lot we import from them, divided by how a lot we import, which is simply stunningly dumb as a result of these issues don’t have anything to do with tariffs. It it’d be like making an attempt to determine the sq. footage of your own home by dividing your cellphone quantity by your canine’s age, or taking your temperature by measuring your head’s distance to the solar. It’s not gonna get you the reply that you simply’re searching for.”
Oliver then identified the “even dumber” a part of Trump’s tariff plan by nothing that two of the international locations going through tariffs are distant islands close to Antarctica with no human life. “Think about going again to 2015 and telling your youthful self, ‘President Trump will enter a commerce conflict with a distant island of penguins,’” he joked. “You’d have loads of comprehensible questions like, ‘What are you speaking about?’”
Final Week Tonight with John Oliver, Sundays, 11/10c, HBO