On his show “Last Week Tonight,” John Oliver recently addressed the man he calls “America’s back mole”: Donald Trump. “It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now that it’s gotten frighteningly bigger, it is no longer wise to ignore it.” In this segment, Oliver voices the concerns of myself and (hopefully) many others at this point in the 2016 race to the white house, mainly surrounding the question of why the hell is Donald Trump still being taken so seriously?
He begins by calling attention to the fact that Trump’s candidacy is no longer the joke that it once seemed to be. He’s actually done so well thus far in the primaries that it’s quite plausible for Trump to become the Republican presidential nominee. Oliver proceeds to show clips of interviews of Trump supporters discussing why they like him: he’s honest, he tells it like it is, he isn’t political, he knows how to run a business etc.
However, Oliver then takes us through the many business ventures of Trump’s that aren’t as successful as they might seem, along with countless lies he’s told about pretty much everything, including being invited on John Oliver’s show and declining to appear. PSA: Just because someone says highly offensive and rude things that shock audiences everywhere, doesn’t mean they’re “blatantly honest!” And when someone has absolutely no public service experience and is running for the United States presidency, the information they supply about themselves become all the more crucial. If said information turns out to be anything less than completely truthful, that is a yuuuuuuge deal. The jokes then continue with Oliver’s mocking of Trump’s tiny hands (a topic about which he is clearly very sensitive).
Oliver then rounds out his broadcast with a surprisingly powerful sentiment. He announces that he read that Donald Trump’s ancestral name was actually, at one point, Drumpf. He talks about how so many of the American people who support Trump are under a sort of “spell,” that the name “Trump” has such a brand of success associated with it that no one cares to notice the horrendous man that exists behind those five letters. He then encourages all of his viewers to spread the message to #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain, as an attempt to separate the man from the name that blinds so many to his unforgivable rudeness and countless faults. While this is without a doubt a hilarious 22-minute segment, I think Oliver actually relays an important message. If we don’t see Donald Trump for who he truly is and are simply distracted by his wealth, we’re going to eventually elect a man completely and totally unfit for the job as the leader of our nation.America is not just another business venture, or another building that Trump can simply slap his name on and forget about.
