The topic of his latest missile is subrime auto lending, a shady practice that bears all too many hallmarks of America’s recent subprime mortgage crisis.
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And if this sounds familiar to what happened with subprime home loans that led to the housing-market crash in 2007, Oliver said we might see a repeat of that as companies are now bundling those high-interest subprime loans and selling them on Wall Street.
Trump would later tweet that media outlets like CNN were to blame for the controversy surrounding the comments, rebranding his ISIS remarks as “sarcasm”. “I’m a tremendous floater.'” Oliver also called the nominee an “imploding star” with “resting rich face”. Then in a subsequent rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump said that his comments were meant sarcastically. Oliver said while jumping up in his chair.
Oliver lampooned Trump’s grandstanding. “It’s the douchebag’s apology”.
Added Oliver following the clip, “You know that riddle where there are two people, one who always lies, and one who always tells the truth?”
Oliver signed up to become a volunteer “Trump Election Observer”, receiving an automated email from the Trump campaign vowing “to do everything we are legally allowed to do to stop crooked Hillary from rigging this election”.
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It was supposed to be the week Donald Trump would focus on his economic policies. But John Oliver, driven to a kind of lunatic giddiness after Trump’s week of kidding-not-kidding proclamations about Obama, ISIS, and election-stealing, finally admitted, “I can not wait for this campaign to be over, but part of me is going to miss him when he’s gone”.
