John Oliver is aware of the entire timeline on X, previously Twitter, is mired in discourse within the aftermath of the explosive (and murderous) finale of The White Lotus Season 3, and given his present’s shared house at HBO, he’s determined to money in on the dialog with an apt dig at President Donald Trump.
Whereas taking part in a clip of POTUS addressing his anti-trans laws in relation to sports activities, the place he additionally remarked quite a few occasions about how the ladies athletes stood behind him have been “stunning” and that such speech might “finish” his political profession, the Last Week Tonight host drew some not-so-sunny comparisons.
“To be fully honest to Trump, I’ll say, his understanding of girls’s points is akin to his understanding of international coverage, home coverage, commerce, the economic system, the idea of consent, human empathy and all however one in every of his youngsters’s names,” he started.
Persevering with, Oliver added, “Trump leads each dialog with a psychosexual vitality that makes The White Lotus appear to be the Teletubbies. Oh, I’m sorry, did the incest storyline [between Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola’s on-screen brothers] hassle you? Donald Trump joked about dating his own daughter on The View. He stated that on a f—ing morning present. No less than White Lotus has the decency to air within the evenings, proper right here, on the incest community,” depicting posters of Recreation of Thrones and Home of the Dragon, each HBO collection.
The feedback got here amid Oliver’s section on the GOP’s “obsession” with trans athletes and banning them in sports activities, particularly by way of laws aimed on the faculty degree.
Elsewhere on this system, Oliver addressed J.Ok. Rowling’s tweet in which she slammed him for his views supporting trans rights, saying, “It feels a bit bizarre to catch that a lot warmth from the creator of Harry Potter, particularly after I clearly appear to be what would have occurred to him in the event that they left him in that cabinet for the remainder of his life,” and that he “stands by the whole lot I stated” within the episode in query.
