As the Dem National Convention got underway in Philly with Bernie Sanders supporters in an uproar over leaked DNC emails, John Oliver’s HBO show looked at “What the f**k just happened” at the RNC in Cleveland.
The “mismanaged shit show” included would-be First Lady Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech, Ted Cruz getting booed off stage when he declined to endorse the party’s nominee, and a speech by one of Trump’s birther-movement followers Antonio Satabo Jr., who explained afterward he believes President Obama is not Christian and, “I have a right to believe that.”
The apex of this “four day exercise in feelings over facts” was Trump’s acceptance speech – a “symphony of bile and race baiting” – in which the candidate delivered the message of every strongman ever: “The world is dangerous and only I can make you safe.”
To that point, Oliver noted Trump’s tweet revealing his main takeaway from that speech:
