As the 2024 presidential election draws closer, John Oliver is confronting viewers with the realities of what a second Donald Trump term could look like.
On Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight, the comedian explained how Trump’s second time around “could be much, much worse” as he took a look at the organized efforts of Project 2025.
“Trump as president was sort of like a hamster in an attack helicopter,” Oliver joked. “Sure, he wants to bathe the world in blood and terror, he wants it with his whole rotten hamster heart. But luckily, he doesn’t know what buttons to press and his brain’s the size of a peanut, so that puts some hard limits on the damage he’s actually able to do.”
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He added, “This time, though, Trump will have a lot more help.”
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Oliver then dove into Project 2025, a step-by-step game plan from a group of more than 100 conservative organizations for Trump to use if he wins re-election. He joked that some of the organizations include “Rodeo Clowns for Trump, The Center for Ruining Thanksgiving, The Marriage is Between a Man and His Property Institute…”
Project 2025 also features a networking website for people interested in working on Trump’s cabinet, which Oliver described as “a conservative LinkedIn,” adding: “It’s essentially an open audition for people who might want a new job because their lost their old one on January 6 for some reason.”
After going into plans to dismantle the FBI, Head Start Program and other vital resources, Oliver made a sobering point. “And for anyone tempted to think, ‘Well we survived Trump’s first term,’ first, not everyone did,” he said.
“And it should hopefully be very clear by now a second Trump term really does promise to be far, far worse,” added Oliver. “Because if Trump’s first term was defined by chaos, his second could be defined as ruthless efficiency and that should be troubling to absolutely everyone.”
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MAGA won’t be happy when Trump’s policies starts to affect them negatively, for example no free lunches for their kids, no Medicaid for their kids, no SNAP, etc
The only president in the last 8 years to condone and pay for ongoing wars is Biden
Trump’s ‘inviting the Taliban to Camp David and giving them everything they want’ isn’t a strategy of peace — it’s cowardly isolationism, will cost more American lives in the long-run, and means all the Americans who already lost their lives there lost them for nothing.
That last line hits hard
Congress approves spending. Not the president.
He shot cruise missiles at Syria and eased restrictions on the use of force in Somalia. That doesn’t count?
totally false.
In Afghanistan, he upped airstrikes, leading to a 330 percent increase in civilian deaths.
In Yemen, there were 2,243 drone strikes in the first two years of Trump’s presidency, compared with 1,878 in the eight years of the Obama administration.
So just to be clear, you’re ok with other countries invading a sovereign country, unprovoked. You are on the side of the invaders. We shouldn’t support the invaded under and circumstance?
Iam a shame to be a republican.
John who? Irrelevant.
Same line the extremists always use – pretending they don’t know who someone is just because that person calls the BS out and Maga doesn’t like it. If you don’t know who John O is, why are you here commenting ??
It’s a great show, and it’s dirt cheap. He gets paid well, his writer gets paid well, his crew, and… that’s it. That’s the whole budget. It’s a money machine. And an awards machine.