A few days after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention, John Oliver on Last Week Tonight brought to us a compilation of everything that went down.
Highlighting their shaky start, he carefully traced all keynote speakers in the convention and subsequently took them apart.
Trump was not the only person ripped apart on Last Week Tonight. In a phrase that he can’t escape, Tim Kaine was referred to as a ‘human sweater-vest’, whose generic face is the kind that comes with a photo frame. In the same breath, Joe Biden was called “America’s motivational cattle prod”.
Once he has left the White House, Biden is going to be the most inspiring Soul Cycle instructor ever. Come on! Pedal! You own the finish line!
If a martian who landed on Earth were asked about who the more patriotic party was, Oliver claims that, unlike every other election contest, that the Democrats would this time outshine the Republicans.
Oliver was not overly critical of Hillary’s speech, but did say that her attention to detail would make her “micromanage the sh*t out of the country”, just like she would count every balloon on stage.
His comparison of the DNC with the Republican National Convention which was held days before, was hilariously insightful. In classic John Oliver style, the centre of this piece too was Donald Trump, who, when he spoke at the RNC, apparently “exhaled a swarm of locusts”.
Trump has said thousands of crazy things, each of which blunts the effect of the others. It’s the bed of nails principle: if you step on one nail, it hurts you, but if you step on a thousand nails, no single one stands out and you’re fine.
Trump’s narrow-minded reasoning of why a fallen Muslim soldier’s father, but not mother, spoke at the DNC was that she was “perhaps, not allowed to”. Oliver rips him apart for this, and shows how Trump has managed to convince half of America that success means the same thing as sacrifice.
The main takeaway from these two weeks is that we may be on the brink of electing such a damaged, sociopathic narcissist, that the simple presidential duty of comforting the families of fallen soldiers may actually be beyond his capabilities.John Oliver on Trump’s response to Khizr Khan
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