As John Oliver recapped the Paris Olympics and the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, Donald Trump supplied some baffling fodder.
The comic opened this weekend’s episode of Final Week Tonight with a clip of the Republican candidate’s “disastrous look” earlier than the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists, the place he made unintelligible statements about Vice President Kamala Harris‘ ethnicity.
“She was at all times of Indian heritage, and he or she was solely selling Indian heritage,” the previous president mentioned within the clip. “I didn’t know she was Black till a lot of years in the past when she occurred to show Black, and now she needs to be often known as Black.”
Oliver then mused, “I imply this in essentially the most disparaging method as attainable: That went about in addition to might be anticipated. 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 girl mentioned she was each Indian and Black, that’s dishonest!’”
Noting that Harris’ father is Black and mom was Indian, Oliver mentioned of Trump’s operating mate, “I can not think about what J.D. Vance, a person with three biracial youngsters was considering whereas watching Trump there. Though, you recognize what? He was in all probability considering, ‘Have a look at that luscious upholstery. Do you suppose these cushions come all the way in which off?’”
Oliver then switched to the current Olympic opening ceremony, which induced controversy over its perceived recreation of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Final Supper‘ with drag queens (the efficiency was truly impressed by Greek mythology).
After enjoying a clip of Trump calling the ceremony “a shame,” Oliver mentioned, “It’s at all times unusual to look at Trump act like he cares about religions. As a result of to echo one thing I heard somebody say lately, I didn’t know he was a Christian till a lot of years in the past when he occurred to show Christian. Unexpectedly, he made a flip and have become a Christian particular person.”
