As President Donald Trump prepares Individuals for financial hardship amid a looming commerce conflict, Final Week Tonight‘s John Oliver zeroed in on the GOP chief’s a number of feedback about dolls, which happened as he enlisted a careless and ever-changing metaphor to debate how women of various ages might now want to purchase anyplace between two to 5 dolls as a substitute of 30 or 37.
“Each single manner this man refers to ladies makes my pores and skin need to flip inside out,” the political comedian quipped. “That stated, I did additionally need to see him preserve going there, simply to see what number of variations of ages and numbers he may cycle by means of.”
Oliver then rattled off one in every of his signature high-speed asides, mimicking how the president would possibly proceed upping the ages of the women talked about (“45-year-old lady, however nonetheless younger at coronary heart”) and rising the doll depend (“12 dolls, 12 Apostles, 12 Days of Christmas, 12 Offended Males — Henry Fonda, nice man, proper? The opposite males — very offended, very offended males, that’s what we’ve received to get out of this nation that’s coming over illegally. Or what — 13 dolls, that’s my closing supply.”)
After reiterating his preliminary “frivolous” feedback a second time throughout an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, through which he posited that an 11-year-old “lovely child lady” wouldn’t want so many dolls, Trump’s second reiteration aboard Air Power One upped the figurative doll-owning age to fifteen.
“He thinks 15-year-old women play with dolls. Has he ever met a 15-year-old lady? That’s a dumb query, after all he has — he was pals with Jeffrey Epstein,” Oliver stated, flashing an image of the 2 on display and eliciting big exclamations of “whoa” from the viewers.
Elsewhere, Oliver additionally threw a zinger at Jeanine Pirro following her appointment as interim U.S. legal professional in Washington, D.C., calling her the “meanest drunk aunt.” He additionally made some lighthearted jokes in regards to the election of Chicago-hailing Robert Prevost to the pinnacle of the Catholic Church as Pope Leo XIV.
“So if you happen to’re questioning: ‘Is Trump’s silly commerce conflict about to harm lots of people?’ Effectively, is the pope Catholic and now additionally some man named Bob from Chicago? The reply is, clearly, sure,” he stated.
