Oliver spent most of the episode processing the presidential election of Donald Trump. “Instead of showing our daughters that they could some day be president, America proved that no grandpa is too racist to become leader of the free world,” he cracked, admitting he’s suffered “wave after wave of nausea all week.”
The host vented his fears of a Trump presidency – and cautioned against blind optimism. “Optimism is nice if you can swing it, but you’ve got to be careful because it can feed into the normalization of Donald Trump,” he said. “And he’s not normal. He’s abnormal. He’s a human ‘What is wrong with this picture?’ He sticks out like a sore thumb, and, frankly, he even looks like a sore thumb.
“Maybe you’ve tried to make yourself feel better, fantasizing that he might Google ‘How much does the president get paid?’ get depressed and then resign,” he continued. “But that is when you remember Mike Fucking Pence, who might be even worse – because he looks like he’s from the 1950s, but he thinks like he’s from the 1960s.”
- Watch John Oliver Become Nauseous Over Trump, Say ‘F--k 2016’, RollingStone.com, November 14, 2016.
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