Simply because the fictional Logan Roy as soon as decried his youngsters as “not critical folks,” so too did John Oliver blast President Donald Trump‘s administration as woefully incompetent, particularly within the wake of the Signal group chat leak, revealed by a bombshell report in The Atlantic final week.
Titled “The Trump Administration By accident Texted Me Its Warfare Plans,” the host kicked off Last Week Tonight by calling it “one of many biggest headlines I learn this week, alongside, ‘Monkeys Chase British Tourist Out Of Hotel Pool In Thailand: ‘Scariest Moment Of My Life‘; ‘This Octopus’s Other Car Is a Shark‘; ‘Lots of fun, good weather greets guests during Deerfield’s 24th annual — look forward to it — Testicle Festival.’”
Oliver then honed in on the emojis used within the chat, known as “Houthi PC Small Group,” deployed by folks like Nationwide Safety Adviser Michael Waltz, who together with one other colleague responded with the varied icons: fist, American flag, muscle, flame and prayer palms.
“These clearly aren’t the correct emojis to ship after a bombing as a result of the correct emojis are no emojis,” the political comedian stated. “It’s principally like asking which Minion meme is true to ship after Dylan’s ex-wife died in a automotive accident. They weren’t collectively anymore, have been they? But it surely feels incorrect to not ship one thing when the reply is perhaps ship flowers and never this particular meme of a Minion cheering in a graveyard holding an indication that claims ‘Sorry about your ex spouse.’ That’s not the reply.”
He continued, “That is one thing of a motif for this administration: deeply unserious folks doing deeply silly issues with massively critical penalties.”
Oliver additionally mentioned the mass deportations of Venezuelan migrants allegedly concerned within the multinational crime organization Tren de Aragua despatched to El Salvador’s infamous mega-prison Cecot, with flimsy reasoning accompanying their lack of due course of, together with having tattoos. One individual awaiting asylum who doesn’t have any tattoos and whose authorities documentation was riddled with errors was also deported.
On Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem’s video in entrance of a cage crammed with prisoners at Cecot, he stated, “The visible alone there may be deeply disturbing. Utilizing caged prisoners with shaved heads as a backdrop is a daring alternative given, , historical past, and is now essentially the most appalling use of a front-facing video from anybody on this administration, even surpassing the time Cheryl Hines holds physique cream in entrance of a nude RFK Jr. displaying off his moist armpits, and I don’t say that calmly.”
He added, “The previous couple of months have seen this administration function with incompetence and cruelty, interspersed with the occasional Nazi-adjacent visuals. The excellent news is that they’re going through large pushback over the mass deportations. The dangerous information is that they’ve already finished a ton of harm. But when they assume they will brush off illegally detaining harmless folks with the identical flippancy they reserve for including the incorrect individual to a bunch chat, they need to know in no unsure phrases that the remainder of us will push again arduous.”
In concluding, he launched his personal set of emojis — a operating man, center finger, pointing finger, peach alongside a gap, pink coronary heart and an American flag: “Or to place it within the language they appear to choose: ‘Go f— yourselves, a–holes, love America.’”