Because the 2024 presidential election attracts nearer, John Oliver is confronting viewers with the realities of what a second Donald Trump time period might appear like.
On Sunday’s episode of Final Week Tonight, the comic defined how Trump’s second time round “may very well be a lot, a lot worse” as he took a take a look at the organized efforts of Undertaking 2025.
“Trump as president was kind of like a hamster in an assault helicopter,” Oliver joked. “Positive, he needs to wash the world in blood and terror, he needs it together with his complete rotten hamster coronary heart. However fortunately, he doesn’t know what buttons to press and his mind’s the scale of a peanut, in order that places some laborious limits on the injury he’s truly capable of do.”
He added, “This time, although, Trump may have much more assist.”
Oliver then dove into Undertaking 2025, a step-by-step sport plan from a bunch of greater than 100 conservative organizations for Trump to make use of if he wins re-election. He joked that among the organizations embody “Rodeo Clowns for Trump, The Heart for Ruining Thanksgiving, The Marriage is Between a Man and His Property Institute…”
Undertaking 2025 additionally incorporates a networking web site for individuals interested by engaged on Trump’s cupboard, which Oliver described as “a conservative LinkedIn,” including: “It’s primarily an open audition for individuals who would possibly need a new job as a result of their misplaced their outdated one on January 6 for some cause.”
After going into plans to dismantle the FBI, Head Begin Program and different important sources, Oliver made a sobering level. “And for anybody tempted to suppose, ‘Nicely we survived Trump’s first time period,’ first, not everybody did,” he mentioned.
“And it ought to hopefully be very clear by now a second Trump time period actually does promise to be far, far worse,” added Oliver. “As a result of if Trump’s first time period was outlined by chaos, his second may very well be outlined as ruthless effectivity and that needs to be troubling to utterly everybody.”