As John Oliver recapped the Paris Olympics and the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, Donald Trump supplied some baffling fodder.
The comic opened this weekend’s episode of Last Week Tonight with a clip of the Republican candidate’s “disastrous look” earlier than the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists, the place he made unintelligible statements about Vice President Kamala Harris‘ ethnicity.
“She was all the time of Indian heritage, and she or he was solely selling Indian heritage,” the previous president mentioned within the clip. “I didn’t know she was Black till various years in the past when she occurred to show Black, and now she desires to be referred to as Black.”
Oliver then mused, “I imply this in probably the most disparaging approach as potential: That went about in addition to may very well be anticipated. Placing Trump in entrance of a Black viewers and asking him to talk on race was by no means going to get extra elevated than, ‘The woman mentioned she was each Indian and Black, that’s dishonest!’”
Noting that Harris’ father is Black and mom was Indian, Oliver mentioned of Trump’s working mate, “I can’t think about what J.D. Vance, a person with three biracial youngsters was pondering whereas watching Trump there. Though, you recognize what? He was most likely pondering, ‘Have a look at that luscious upholstery. Do you assume these cushions come all the way in which off?’”
Oliver then switched to the latest Olympic opening ceremony, which brought about controversy over its perceived recreation of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper‘ with drag queens (the efficiency was truly inspired by Greek mythology).
After taking part in a clip of Trump calling the ceremony “a disgrace,” Oliver mentioned, “It’s all the time unusual to look at Trump act like he cares about religions. As a result of to echo one thing I heard somebody say not too long ago, I didn’t know he was a Christian till various years in the past when he occurred to show Christian. Rapidly, he made a flip and have become a Christian particular person.”
