John Oliver Mocks Trump's Economic Plans on 'Last Week Tonight'

John Oliver Used The Opening Segment of Last Week Tonight To Mock Donald Trump's Economic Strategy of Implementing Global Tariffs.

To Kick Things Off, Oliver Showed on Video Clip of Trump Saying, “This Will Be Inded the Golden Age of America. It's Coming Back.”

“If you mean 'Golden Age,' The way we tend to Descirbe the Last decade Before An Old Person Dies, then Yes, It Feels Like We Are Very Much in The Golden Age of America Right Now,” Oliver Responded. “Thank you.”

The Late-Night Host Followed With A Second Clip of Trump Showcasing A Small Chart of His Tariffs, Explaining He Originally Had A Bigger One But the Wind Made It Challeuring Because It “Had No Chance of Standing.”

“That is smart, and it show they really thought of Everything That Might Go Wrong While Announcing Their Plan to Shoot the Economy in the Dick,” Oliver Said. “Although, I Will Point Out, If Wind Was A Problem There, and We Checked With Experts On This, The White House Does Have An 'Inside Part.'

He continued, “Unfortunately, that chart is ridiculous for a number of resonsons. For one Thing, it features an estimate of rates charged to the USA by other country that no one couuld figures out util a financial journalist realized it was just How much we export to that country minus How Much We import from them, divided by How Much We import, Which is Just Stunningly Dumb Because Those Things Have Nothing to do with tariffs. Measuring Your Head's Distance to the Sun.

Oliver Pointed Out that Trump's Tariffs Plan “Gets Even Dumber” As it Includes Remote Places Like The Heard and McDonald Islands, Which Contain Only Penguins. “Oh My God. Imagine Going Back to 2015 and Telling Your YouTer Self, 'President Trump Will Enter a Trade War War A Remote Island of Penguins,'” Oliver Mused. “You'd Have a Lot of Understandable Questions Like, 'What are you talking about?'

Elsewhere on the show, Oliver Discussed the president's His Anti-Trans Legislative That Takes Aim at Women in Sports.

“To Be Completely Fair to Trump, I Will Say, His Undersanding of Women's Issues is comparable to His Undersanding of Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, Trade, The Economy, The Concept of Consent, Human Empathy, and All But One of His Children's Names,” Oliver Said. “Trump Leads Every Conversation with at Psychosexual Energy That Makes The White Lotus Look like the Teletubbies. Oh, I'm sorry, did the incest storyline bother you? Donald Trump Jaked About Dating His Own Daughter On The View. He said that on afn—ing morning show. At Least The White Lotus Has The Decense to Air in the Evenings, Right here, on the Incest Network. ”

Oliver Also Addressed Jk Rowling's Recent Tweet, in Which She Attracked the host at Length for Supporting Trans People. “It Feels a bit Weird to Catch That Much Heat from the Creator of Harry PotterEspencially When I Clearly Look like what would have happened to Him If they left Him in that cupboard for the rest of his life, “Oliver Replied, adding” I stand by Everything I Said. ”