John Oliver Urges Republicans to “Stop Being So Weird”
John Oliver Here’s a word of advice for Republicans who don’t want to called “bizarre” by Democrats: “Stop being so weird,” he pleaded in the latest episode of Last week tonight.
Front of Democratic National Convention 2024presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her companion Tim Walz, who helped pioneer of the “these guys are weird” movementhas strategically indicated when Donald Trump and his companion JD Vance is getting weird. It’s a tactic that Vance has tried and failed to deploy, but it also Trump is angry“You know it’s affecting him,” Oliver said, noting how Trump tried to refuse label in a recent interview, claiming that no one had ever used that word to describe him before. “No one has ever called you weird?” Oliver continued. “Honey, seriously.”
“Friend tried to buy Greenland. Friend staring at the sun during a solar eclipse. And you did this,” Oliver said, pointing out photos of Trump hug and kiss the American flag. “That’s not something a normal person would do.” The late-night host argued that any “‘weird’ label is especially difficult to erase because the Republican candidates at the bottom of the list continue to complicate things, including some who won primaries just this week.”
Case in point: Minnesota Republican U.S. Senate candidate Royce White, a former professional basketball player, far-right podcast host and “as staunch a Trump supporter as he will tell you,” Oliver said, before playing clip of White speaking to the camera: “Donald Trump could go on stage, pull down his pants, shit on the podium, and I would still never vote for you fucking Democrats again,” then added, “Think about it.” Oliver then asked, “Is there anywhere Trump could shit that would make you vote Democrat again?”, suggesting a merry-go-round, the inside of a gumball machine, and even “White’s own toilet seat.”
Retired Navy Colonel Hung Cao, is the Republican Senate candidate in Virginia, “also a very strange man,” as shown in an interview in which Cao shares his concerns about Lovers Point; an area in Monterey, California, that he claims has been overrun by Wiccans. “If Monterey is really overrun with witches—which it isn’t—then I’d be really pissed that there’s no witch storyline on Big Lies!Oliver cried out. “How could you deprive us? Nicole Kidman show up at a moonlit party and say, ‘We’re here to see magic?'” he added, referring to the Oscar winner. AMC commercials go viral. “Everyone’s head will explode.”
Wisconsin is said to be the home state of Senator Tammy BaldwinRepublican opponent, banking executive Eric Hovde, Or as Oliver calls him, “Ned Flanders has no raw sexual appeal.” Amid accusations that he spend a lot of time in CaliforniaHovde has released scene about him bathing in a frozen lake as proof of his Wisconsin ties. “Challenging someone to meet you in a frozen lake to score political points is pathetic,” Oliver said. “I assumed it was a penis-measuring contest, but I guess with the temperature of that water, your penis would have disappeared into your body by now.”
Oliver, who has devoted recent episodes to Digging into Trump’s comments on race and Vance’s campaign call to confirm a rumor on the couchtried to reason with the GOP. “Look,” he said. “I understand that Republicans want to get away from weird accusations. But the way to do that is to stop being so weird. Because imagining your party’s presidential candidate pooping in front of you? Weird. Warning people about the influence of the Monterey Witches? Weird. Inviting your female opponent to join you in a frozen lake? Weird,” Oliver said. “And I apologize for laughing at these people. Partly because I know it’s not cool, but mostly because as we all know, J.D. Vance,” who Oliver said “seemed to be stuck 10 percent of the way into turning into a werewolf” elsewhere in the episode, “believes that every time someone laughs somewhere in the world, a kid loses his groceries for some reason.”
