Donald Trump continually lies and John Oliver isn’t going to let him get away with it. In this most recent segment, he points the lies out.
John Oliver, must like most our late night talk show hosts, are tired. Not physically tired but rather emotionally done with everything happening in the world. He isn’t trying to hide the idiotic remarks coming out of Trump’s mouth.
“But we were so accustomed to Trump’s nonsense, people could just shrug it off as Donald being Donald.” While the whole video is amazing and shows the truth of what Trump is actually saying. He just openly lies and people either have to explain what he actually means or we just say “that’s probably right”.
Check it out.
Oliver gives us simple examples first. Like the fact that Donald Trump lies about how big Trump Tower really is. No, this isn’t fake. The 58 story building is said to have 68 floors (in regards to the numbering system) because Trump wanted people to stay on higher floors.
The argument is that someone would rather stay on the fourteenth floor over the sixth.
Trump’s own advisors are saying that the people should not take Trump at his word. John, of course, goes into a professor rant about what the Trump supporters were thinking and it was glorious.
“I wasn’t kidding, I don’t kid.” Trump should be taken seriously, that is part of our problem. People underestimate what Trump will actually do and John is showing us the idea that his advisors are saying versus the reality of the situation.
“Nuclear. The power, the devastation is very important to me,” Trump said and Oliver, rightfully so, pointed out the fear we all should have.
Trump vs Cable TV
Oliver then went on a tirade about Trump getting his news from cable news. I say tirade because the rant goes on for quite some time but it is a glorious moment. He points out the tweets that Trump has said that directly quote news stories that had aired not fifteen minutes before he shared it.
He also goes into Trump’s trust in Breitbart. The news source that gave us the real life villain known as Steve Bannon also promotes racism and white supremacy. But it isn’t even just Breitbart. He loves InfoWars and multiple websites that are very clearly bias towards one side.
For instance, InfoWars says Sandy Hook is fake. A school shooting that killed multiple children.
The Danger in the Lying
The whole segment just proves that it is truly dangerous how Donald Trump is lying. He takes very inaccurate sources and runs with it. The rumors circulate because those who support him are the ones who also use those news sources.
They do not use accurate sources and it makes Trump look like the first president to actually speak the truth. And that’s what John talks about. He just wants the truth to come out but he also points out that the White House seems to have no problem that the president is continually lying.
“No you haven’t, Melissa. No you haven’t.”
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While John Oliver makes jokes and continues to paint this in a light that we’ll understand, at the end he did force us all to realize how this could turn out for the rest of us. John is doing an amazing job and we need more people like him to wake America up.