John Oliver once more criticized President Trump on Final Week Tonight, this time over the latter’s response to growing protests towards immigration raids throughout the nation.
“As you undoubtedly know, final weekend, ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] carried out sweeping raids throughout the nation as a part of an escalation ordered by Stephen Miller,” the White Home deputy chief of employees, Oliver mentioned on Sunday’s version of his present. “Miller reportedly advised ICE officers to only go on the market and arrest unlawful aliens, suggesting they aim Dwelling Depots or 7-Eleven comfort shops. In order that’s what occurred, and from the beginning, it was a large number.”
Oliver confirmed a information section that includes footage of individuals getting detained by Homeland Safety in Los Angeles. A person who was interviewed on digicam mentioned, “My mates began yelling ICE, ICE, ICE. I assumed he was joking, however he wasn’t. Then I noticed all of the day laborers beginning to run.”
Stated Oliver: “That’s terrible. Somebody yelling ICE is sort of by no means going to be a constructive factor. Greatest-case state of affairs, you’ve one way or the other time traveled again to 2014 and should do an ice bucket problem, one thing, by the way in which, that [Trump] did as a result of he was nominated by, that is true, Mike Tyson, Vince McMahon and Homer Simpson. It was a less complicated time,” he quipped.
Oliver then talked about the escalating protests in Los Angeles, which prompted Trump to ship in 1000’s of Nationwide Guard troops and a whole lot of Marines “to guard federal regulation enforcement from the assaults of a vicious and violent mob,” as Trump put it.
“And among the radical left, they are saying, oh, that’s not good,” Trump added. “Properly, if we didn’t do it, there wouldn’t be a Los Angeles. It’d be burning in the present day, similar to the homes had been burning a lot of months in the past” within the devastating fires that swept by means of areas of L.A. together with Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
Stated Oliver: “OK, I do know I’m not saying something new proper now, however he’s such a dick. There may be simply no purpose to convey up the traumatic fires which are nonetheless very a lot on folks’s minds in L.A. for a similar purpose you shouldn’t open a toast at a retirement celebration with, ‘Wow, [the] solely milestone left after that is demise.’ Yeah, everybody is aware of that and we’re all making an attempt not to consider it.”
Oliver then famous that Trump’s transfer was opposed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, amongst different officers.
“Why would you ship troops if there’s nothing for them to do?” Oliver requested. “You’re simply gonna have 4,000 troopers wandering round L.A. swinging by the Hollywood Stroll of Fame and going, ‘Oh, Christian Slater. OK.’” (The actor acquired a star on the Stroll of Fame earlier this month.)
Oliver then acknowledged that there was “sporadic vandalism and rock throwing and a few Waymo vehicles had been set on hearth.”
“However these had been remoted incidents by no means consultant of the protest as a complete,” he continued. “And I’m not saying that these aren’t placing visuals. I’m simply saying setting a driverless automobile on hearth shouldn’t be the identical factor as assaulting somebody, except we’re one way or the other dwelling within the Pixar Automobiles universe the place burning one is homicide, and also you’d be condemned to hell by the automobile pope — an actual character from Automobiles 2, by the way in which, implying there’s automobile Catholicism, automobile Jesus and presumably a decades-long automobile cover-up of automobile sexual abuse.”
Oliver opined that Trump’s response to the protests “felt fully over-the-top, particularly when you think about troops will apparently be there for 60 days at a value to taxpayers of roughly $134 million. And normally when that a lot is spent on one thing fully pointless, we no less than get to see one of many Avengers in it,” he joked.