John Oliver kicked off Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight taking us on the ongoing saga that is the Donald Trump presidency before digging into Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace plan.
Oliver talked about Trump’s “big week in diplomacy” as he visited with various authoritarians around the world. He joked about…
On Sunday night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver had a full plate of things to discuss including the eight-way Scripps spelling bee tie, Narendra Modi getting sworn in for his second term as India’s Prime Minister and Robert Mueller screaming “the word impeachment with his eyes. He also dove into the world of the…
Patriot Actstar Hasan Minhaj made the Time 100 gala more than a performance, calling on presidential advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner to use his influence with Saudi Arabia to free an imprisoned women’s rights activist.
Minhaj, who has had his own confrontations with Saudi Arabian politics, having an episode…
John Oliver opened Last Week Tonight talking about President Donald Trump's terrible week.
Among his series of setbacks, his summit with North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un flopped, and his former fixer Michael Cohen called Trump a racist, cheat conman, and himself a “fool” for his slavish devotion to the guy.
"The fact…
The United States is “in the fact finding phase” of the investigation into the Saudi murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, First Son-In-Law Jared Kushner told CNN’s Van Jones.
“We’re getting as many facts as we can from the different places; then we will determine which facts are credible and, after…
After President Donald Trump played canary in the coal mine for them, the Saudi royal family is getting ready to acknowledge this evening that Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul during an interrogation/kidnap gone wrong.
The intention had been to kidnap, not kill…
President Donald Trump says he has spoken with Saudis at “the highest level” about the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Khashoggi, a frequent critic of the Saudi government, vanished last week in Istanbul, Turkey, after entering the Saudi consulate there. He was seen walking into the…
Surprising many, Nikki Haley resigned as ambassador to the United Nations this morning.
Timing of the announcement raised TV news eyebrows, coming as it does just weeks before the midterm election though Haley, widely regarded as a stabilizing influence on Trump, told reporters at a pop-up White House presser she will…
President Trump has been futzing in the Middle East, opening the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Stephen Colbert told viewers. “Now we’ve just got to de-stabilize Antarctica, and we'll have Global Crisis Bingo,” Colbert snarked.
But, according to our ambassador, moving the embassy to Jerusalem sends a message to Israel…
President Donald Trump staged a made-for-TV meeting to talk guns, White House Communications Director Hope Hicks said so-long, First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner and Ben Carson stayed mum under the gun, and NBC’s Late Night star Seth Meyers took a Closer Look.
Carson is caught up in scandal after spending $31K for a…
UPDATED with video:Stephen Colbert dove in and rolled around happily in the huge news of the day: First Son-In-Law Jared Kushner was denied his security clearance and has lost access to top-secret intelligence.
“How will he fix the Middle East now! He was so close to starting!” Colbert bemoaned.
Shortly before…
Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways to manipulate President Donald Trump’s senior adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner by taking advantage of his business entanglements, financial difficulties, and lack of foreign policy expertise, Washington Post reports.
The news eclipsed days earlier…
