John Oliver Roasts Trump: White House Demolition ‘Too on the Nose’

On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver targeted President Trump in his opening segment, focusing on several recent and controversial moves by the president.

Oliver began by showing footage of the East Wing of the White House being demolished to make way for a $250 million ballroom.

“Those images are distressing, especially when you know it’s all to build a giant ballroom in a style best described as ‘Med Spa Versailles,’” Oliver said. He added, “And yet, the demolition of the White House, a metaphor that, if anything, is too on the nose, was just the tip of Trump’s iceberg this week.”

The host then addressed Trump’s efforts to secure $230 million from the Justice Department, claiming it as compensation for federal investigations into his actions. “Trump has said he’d donate any settlement to, in his words, ‘charity or something,’” Oliver noted.

Oliver also covered other controversial developments, including an AI video Trump shared of himself targeting protesters, abandoning trade talks with Canada over a TV ad, and authorizing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina to support libertarian policies.

However, Oliver said the most alarming action was Trump’s approval of military strikes against boats accused of drug smuggling into the United States.

“Even though the administration has not provided public evidence for its claims… the typical approach to drug boats is to intercept them and arrest the suspects, not murder them with no due process,” Oliver said. He added that Trump is planning to carry out land strikes against suspected drug traffickers in Venezuela without congressional approval, quoting him: “We’re just going to kill people. They’re going to be, like, dead.”

Oliver concluded by criticizing the lack of oversight from Congress and the courts. “Between tearing down the White House, trying to use the Justice Department to pay himself and proudly sharing AI footage of him literally shitting on Americans, the president’s now also appointed himself judge, jury and executioner of foreign citizens. And it is infuriating that neither Congress nor the courts seem to be interested in putting a stop to any of this because we are supposed to live in a country of checks and balances,” he said.

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