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During his opening speech connected tonight’s installment of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver addressed nan spiraling claims by Donald Trump‘s management regarding nan Iran War, which has continued to resistance connected contempt assurances it would entail a decisive subject cognition past month.
After cuing a video of U.S. Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth‘s caller address to nan American public, successful which he defended “Operation Epic Fury,” nan late-night big quipped: “‘Epic Fury is different?’ Maybe. It’s decidedly nan stupidest name I’ve ever heard. It sounds for illustration a VHS portion Hegseth put retired of himself doing karate successful a garage. It sounds for illustration nan sanction of an power portion marketed to divided monster motortruck fans containing truthful overmuch caffeine it makes you crap your pants while having a bosom attack. It doesn’t precisely convey attraction and precision.”
Prior to nan weekend, Trump besides reiterated that he believes nan U.S. has decisively won nan war.
“Oh, well, that’s awesome news, but here’s nan problem pinch that: He already declared we’d won nan warfare 11 days ago, and I don’t cognize if you’ve noticed, but it has seemed to proceed since then,” Oliver said. “And I’ve gotta say, for each this administration’s disdain for ‘cable news spin,’ and its insistence that group ‘report nan reality,’ they are stretching nan truth to breaking constituent here.”
He continued, “Because moreover arsenic Trump’s claiming that we’ve won, nan Pentagon’s requesting $200 cardinal successful other funding for this cognition is judge suggesting it’ll beryllium going connected for a while. He’s besides claimed we’ve destroyed ‘100% of Iran’s subject capability,’ which is simply a small difficult to believe, fixed they’re still someway managing to onslaught aggregate different countries successful nan region. And he claimed doubly this week that a erstwhile president endorsed his decision to spell to war, thing they’ve each since denied. The lies are getting beautiful flagrant here, moreover by this president’s standards, and inevitably, group are noticing.”
The only “epic fury” he’s witnessed this week, Oliver joked, is from a three-time Trump-voting Dauphin County resident named Amanda, who has since gone viral for telling section news what she would opportunity to Trump if he were watching: “You’re a worthless heap of shit.”
