John Oliver is aware of the entire timeline on X, previously Twitter, is mired in discourse within the aftermath of the explosive (and murderous) finale of The White Lotus Season 3, and given his present’s shared residence at HBO, he’s determined to money in on the dialog with an apt dig at President Donald Trump.
Whereas enjoying a clip of POTUS addressing his anti-trans laws in relation to sports activities, the place he additionally remarked quite a few occasions about how the ladies athletes stood behind him have been “stunning” and that such speech might “finish” his political profession, the Final Week Tonight host drew some not-so-sunny comparisons.
“To be fully honest to Trump, I’ll say, his understanding of girls’s points is similar to his understanding of overseas coverage, home coverage, commerce, the economic system, the idea of consent, human empathy and all however one in every of his kids’s names,” he started.
Persevering with, Oliver added, “Trump leads each dialog with a psychosexual power that makes The White Lotus seem like the Teletubbies. Oh, I’m sorry, did the incest storyline [between Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola’s on-screen brothers] trouble you? Donald Trump joked about relationship his personal daughter on The View. He mentioned that on a f—ing morning present. A minimum of White Lotus has the decency to air within the evenings, proper right here, on the incest community,” depicting posters of Sport of Thrones and Home of the Dragon, each HBO sequence.
The feedback got here amid Oliver’s phase on the GOP’s “obsession” with trans athletes and banning them in sports activities, particularly through laws aimed on the college degree.
Elsewhere on this system, Oliver addressed J.Ok. Rowling’s tweet through which she slammed him for his views supporting trans rights, saying, “It feels a bit bizarre to catch that a lot warmth from the creator of Harry Potter, particularly after I clearly seem like what would have occurred to him in the event that they left him in that cabinet for the remainder of his life,” and that he “stands by every thing I mentioned” within the episode in query.
