Simply because the fictional Logan Roy as soon as decried his kids as “not severe folks,” so too did John Oliver blast President Donald Trump‘s administration as woefully incompetent, particularly within the wake of the Sign group chat leak, revealed by a bombshell report in The Atlantic final week.
Titled “The Trump Administration By chance Texted Me Its Warfare Plans,” the host kicked off Final Week Tonight by calling it “one of many biggest headlines I learn this week, alongside, ‘Monkeys Chase British Vacationer Out Of Resort Pool In Thailand: ‘Scariest Second Of My Life‘; ‘This Octopus’s Different Automotive Is a Shark‘; ‘Numerous enjoyable, good climate greets friends throughout Deerfield’s twenty fourth annual — watch for it — Testicle Pageant.’”
Oliver then honed in on the emojis used within the chat, referred to as “Houthi PC Small Group,” deployed by folks like Nationwide Safety Adviser Michael Waltz, who together with one other colleague responded with the assorted icons: fist, American flag, muscle, flame and prayer fingers.
“These clearly aren’t the proper emojis to ship after a bombing as a result of the proper emojis are no emojis,” the political comedian stated. “It’s mainly like asking which Minion meme is correct to ship after Dylan’s ex-wife died in a automotive accident. They weren’t collectively anymore, have been they? But it surely feels improper to not ship one thing when the reply is possibly ship flowers and never this particular meme of a Minion cheering in a graveyard holding an indication that claims ‘Sorry about your ex spouse.’ That isn’t the reply.”
He continued, “That is one thing of a motif for this administration: deeply unserious folks doing deeply silly issues with massively severe penalties.”
Oliver additionally mentioned the mass deportations of Venezuelan migrants allegedly concerned within the multinational crime group Tren de Aragua despatched to El Salvador’s infamous mega-prison Cecot, with flimsy reasoning accompanying their lack of due course of, together with having tattoos. One individual awaiting asylum who doesn’t have any tattoos and whose authorities documentation was riddled with errors was additionally deported.
On Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem’s video in entrance of a cage full of prisoners at Cecot, he stated, “The visible alone there’s deeply disturbing. Utilizing caged prisoners with shaved heads as a backdrop is a daring alternative given, you realize, historical past, and is now probably the most appalling use of a front-facing video from anybody on this administration, even surpassing the time Cheryl Hines holds physique cream in entrance of a nude RFK Jr. exhibiting off his moist armpits, and I don’t say that flippantly.”
He added, “The previous couple of months have seen this administration function with incompetence and cruelty, interspersed with the occasional Nazi-adjacent visuals. The excellent news is that they’re going through huge pushback over the mass deportations. The unhealthy information is that they’ve already carried out a ton of injury. But when they assume they’ll brush off illegally detaining harmless folks with the identical flippancy they reserve for including the improper individual to a bunch chat, they need to know in no unsure phrases that the remainder of us will push again laborious.”
In concluding, he launched his personal set of emojis — a working man, center finger, pointing finger, peach alongside a gap, purple coronary heart and an American flag: “Or to place it within the language they appear to choose: ‘Go f— yourselves, a–holes, love America.’”
