Throughout the longest-ever episode of Final Week Tonight With John Oliver, host John Oliver spoke at-length about how Donald Trump has responded to protests in opposition to current raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
After displaying footage of ICE detaining folks in Los Angeles, Oliver mentioned, “That’s terrible. Somebody yelling ICE is sort of by no means going to be a optimistic factor. Finest-case state of affairs, you’ve by some means time traveled again to 2014 and should do an ice bucket problem, one thing, by the way in which, that [Trump] did as a result of he was nominated by, that is true, Mike Tyson, Vince McMahon and Homer Simpson. It was an easier time.”
The speak present host particularly referenced the protests in Los Angeles, which led to Trump sending within the Nationwide Guard to, because the president put it, “shield federal regulation enforcement from the assaults of a vicious and violent mob.” He additionally identified that Trump defended his determination by mentioning the fires that swiped by means of California earlier this 12 months. “If we didn’t do it, there wouldn’t be a Los Angeles,” Trump mentioned in a clip. “It’d be burning at present identical to the homes have been burning a variety of months in the past.”
Oliver known as the president “suck a d**ok” for bringing the fires into the dialog. “There’s simply no motive to convey up the traumatic fires which can be nonetheless very a lot on folks’s minds in L.A. for a similar motive you shouldn’t open a toast at a retirement occasion with, ‘Wow, [the] solely milestone left after that is dying.’ Yeah, everybody is aware of that and we’re all making an attempt not to consider it.”
He mentioned Trump’s response to every part “felt fully over-the-top, particularly when you think about troops will apparently be there for 60 days at a value to taxpayers of roughly $134 million.” He then joked, “And normally when that a lot is spent on one thing fully pointless, we at the least get to see one of many Avengers in it.”
Your complete episode was 49 minutes lengthy, making it the longest in Oliver’s 12-season run on Final Week Tonight. Following the dialog concerning the ICE raids, Oliver mentioned the juvenile justice system in America. His 38-minute speak concerning the “flaws” of the justice system took up a majority of the episode.
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