“Donald Trump can seem appealing until you take a closer look”, warned Oliver.
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As reported by the Washington Post, Oliver took Trump to task on his debate behavior and failed business ventures – Trump shuttle, Trump vodka, and Trump Steaks (sold exclusively through The Sharper Image). And HBO’s John Oliver, who called the candidate a “litigious serial liar, a “bull- artist” and a “baby with evil, smaller fingers” on ” Last Week Tonight” on Sunday, may have swung and missed as well.
And in classic John Oliver fashion, the comedian has started his own “Drumpf” campaign.
Oliver becomes increasingly robust in his criticism of Trump, while accepting that he is entertaining. “Even when you can demonstrably prove Trump to be wrong, it somehow never seems to matter”, Oliver said “You can hold his feet to the fire, but he’ll just stand there on the stumps, bragging about his fireproof foot skin”. One of the funniest developments by “Last Week Tonight” is a Drumpf website and an extension to the Chrome browser that changes all mentions of Trump online to read “Drumpf”.
“I even checked to make sure no one had even accidentally invited him”, Oliver said.
According to Time, Oliver presented a “point-by-point takedown of the businessman turned potential President of the United States”.
Oliver reported that a Vanity Fair writer, who said that Trump was “a short-fingered vulgarian”, routinely received mail from Trump with photographs of his (presumably average-length) fingers circled in gold Sharpie. “Whether Donald Trump could have had the same success with any other name is an intriguing question”.
As for why Oliver may be picking on Trump so viciously? Yet for awhile there, Trump was telling anyone who would listen (everybody) that he had turned down request to appear on Last Week Tonight.
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“Mr. Drumpf, I await your lawsuit in the morning.”
