John Oliver opened Sunday’s (August 4) episode of Final Week Tonight by poking enjoyable at feedback made by former President Donald Trump final week relating to Vice President Kamala Harris and the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
The late-night host began by specializing in Trump’s interview on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists occasion, the place the Republican presidential nominee mentioned he didn’t know Harris was Black till a number of years in the past, claiming she recognized as Indian after which “grew to become a Black individual” for political achieve.
“I imply this in probably the most disparaging manner attainable: that went about in addition to may very well be anticipated,” Oliver mentioned, per The Each day Beast. “Placing Trump in entrance of a Black viewers and asking him to talk on race was by no means going to get extra elevated than, ‘the woman mentioned she was each Indian and Black. That’s dishonest.’”
Oliver added, “So, none of this wants saying, however Harris didn’t ‘make a flip’ into being Black prefer it’s an interstate off-ramp. Her father’s Black and her mom was Indian.”
He additionally obtained a dig in on Trump’s working mate JD Vance, quipping, “I can’t think about what J.D. Vance, a person with three biracial kids was considering whereas watching Trump there. Though, you already know what? He was in all probability considering, ‘Take a look at that luscious upholstery. Do you suppose these cushions come all the way in which off?’”
The Neighborhood alum then turned his consideration to the Paris Olympics, noting the “extremely silly controversies” surrounding “this Algerian boxer supposedly being trans, regardless of the actual fact she isn’t” and the “anger over the extremely French opening ceremony.”
Oliver recapped the opening ceremony, paying explicit consideration to the drag queen section, which many Christian teams interpreted as a mockery of The Final Supper.
Trump himself commented on the efficiency, telling Laura Ingraham, “I assumed it was a shame… I imply, they’ll do sure issues. I assumed it was, uh… horrible.”
Oliver then turned Trump’s personal phrases towards him, saying, “It’s all the time unusual to look at Trump act like he cares about religions. As a result of to echo one thing I heard somebody say just lately, I didn’t know he was a Christian till plenty of years in the past when he occurred to show Christian. Hastily, he made a flip and have become a Christian individual.”
Final Week Tonight with John Oliver, Sundays, 11/10c, HBO
