As John Oliver recapped the Paris Olympics and the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, Donald Trump offered some baffling fodder.
The comic opened this weekend’s episode of Final Week Tonight with a clip of the Republican candidate’s “disastrous look” earlier than the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists, the place he made unintelligible statements about Vice President Kamala Harris‘ ethnicity.
“She was at all times of Indian heritage, and she or he was solely selling Indian heritage,” the previous president stated within the clip. “I didn’t know she was Black till a lot of years in the past when she occurred to show Black, and now she desires to be generally known as Black.”
Oliver then mused, “I imply this in probably the most disparaging means as attainable: That went about in addition to might be anticipated. Placing Trump in entrance of a Black viewers and asking him to talk on race was by no means going to get extra elevated than, ‘The girl stated she was each Indian and Black, that’s dishonest!’”
Noting that Harris’ father is Black and mom was Indian, Oliver stated of Trump’s working mate, “I can’t think about what J.D. Vance, a person with three biracial youngsters was considering whereas watching Trump there. Though, you realize what? He was in all probability considering, ‘Have a look at that luscious upholstery. Do you assume these cushions come all the way in which off?’”
Oliver then switched to the latest Olympic opening ceremony, which triggered controversy over its perceived recreation of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Final Supper‘ with drag queens (the efficiency was truly impressed by Greek mythology).
After taking part in a clip of Trump calling the ceremony “a shame,” Oliver stated, “It’s at all times unusual to look at Trump act like he cares about religions. As a result of to echo one thing I heard somebody say lately, I didn’t know he was a Christian till a lot of years in the past when he occurred to show Christian. Abruptly, he made a flip and have become a Christian individual.”