The Last Week Tonight host used Sunday's episode to put The Chainsmokers, Congressman Louie Gohmert, and “the most powerful idiot of all,” Trump, on blast
with a brief accounting of the many ill-advised mass gatherings that have taken place in the United States as coronavirus cases surge nationwide,“Recklessness is abounding right now, heightening the need for strong leadership,” Oliver said after referencing not just an infamousto declare residents should try to avoid induction in the “Knucklehead Hall of Fame.”
But, Oliver added, “unfortunately, we’re getting the exact opposite of that. Just a week after Trump was given credit for shifting his rhetoric by urging Americans to wear masks, he did something that, even for him, was shockingly reckless.”a disinformation video that featured a number of debunked false claims about the coronavirus pandemic, including that masks do not work to stop the spread of the illness and that hydroxychloroquine has proven to be effective as a therapeutic.
“Yeah, that’s pretty upsetting coming from a doctor,” Oliver said on Sunday. “You’d expect that bullshit from some idiot who claims to know about medicine but doesn’t have a medical license—like, I don’t know, your dipshit uncle, orBut despite being told of Dr. Immanuel’s problematic history, Trump refused to back off his endorsement of the video .
“She was on air, along with many other doctors. They were big fans of hydroxychloroquine, and I thought she was very impressive in the sense that, from where she came,” Trump said last week. “I don’t know which country she comes from, but she said that she’s had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients. And I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.”. He thinks her voice is ‘important’ but admits to knowing nothing else about her.
He added, “Downplaying the risks of this can have dire consequences. On Thursday, Herman Cain died about six weeks after attending a Trump rally in Tulsa, where he was photographed without a mask, later tweeting that ‘people are fed up’ at being made to wear them. This, sadly, won’t be the last time we see people find out the hard way how serious this is.” (The Cain tweet was later
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