“Final Week Tonight” host John Oliver on Sunday dinged Donald Trump with a line about HBO’s darkish comedy “The White Lotus” throughout a 42-minute phase exploring the conservative “obsession” with banning transgender ladies and women from competing in ladies’s sports activities.
Amid the prolonged deep dive, Oliver noticed what he referred to as Trump’s “creepiest praise,” delivered in February when Trump signed an government order in search of to nix federal funds from instructional applications permitting trans athletes to compete.
“ I’m not allowed to say this politically, it may finish my profession,” Trump mentioned on the time of the ladies and women surrounding him. “They’re actually stunning individuals. These are stunning individuals however you realize, like every thing else, it’s a bit bit completely different immediately. You’re not allowed to say that as a result of if you happen to name a lady or a lady stunning, that’s the top of your profession. However let’s take an opportunity on it.”
Oliver mirrored: “To be fully truthful to Trump, I’ll say his understanding of girls’s points is corresponding to his understanding of overseas coverage, home coverage, commerce, the financial system, the idea of consent, human empathy, and all however one in every of his kids’s names.”
“Trump leads each dialog with a psychosexual vitality that makes ‘The White Lotus’ appear to be ‘The Teletubbies.’”
