Simply because the fictional Logan Roy as soon as decried his kids as “not severe individuals,” 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 accident Texted Me Its Conflict Plans,” the host kicked off Final Week Tonight by calling it “one of many best 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‘; ‘A lot of enjoyable, good climate greets friends throughout Deerfield’s twenty fourth annual — look forward to it — Testicle Pageant.’”
Oliver then honed in on the emojis used within the chat, known as “Houthi PC Small Group,” deployed by individuals like Nationwide Safety Adviser Michael Waltz, who together with one other colleague responded with the varied icons: fist, American flag, muscle, flame and prayer palms.
“These clearly aren’t the correct emojis to ship after a bombing as a result of the correct emojis aren’t any emojis,” the political comedian mentioned. “It’s principally like asking which Minion meme is correct to ship after Dylan’s ex-wife died in a automobile accident. They weren’t collectively anymore, have been they? However it feels flawed 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’s not the reply.”
He continued, “That is one thing of a motif for this administration: deeply unserious individuals 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 particular person 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 crammed with prisoners at Cecot, he mentioned, “The visible alone there’s deeply disturbing. Utilizing caged prisoners with shaved heads as a backdrop is a daring alternative given, , historical past, and is now essentially 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. displaying 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 dealing with huge pushback over the mass deportations. The dangerous information is that they’ve already performed a ton of injury. But when they suppose they will brush off illegally detaining harmless individuals with the identical flippancy they reserve for including the flawed particular person to a gaggle chat, they need to know in no unsure phrases that the remainder of us will push again onerous.”
In concluding, he launched his personal set of emojis — a operating man, center finger, pointing finger, peach alongside a gap, pink coronary heart and an American flag: “Or to place it within the language they appear to favor: ‘Go f— yourselves, a–holes, love America.’”
