John Oliver Goes IN on Donald Trump’s Response to Charlottesville

Loads of Hollywood celebs are unhappy with President Trump for his unempathic response to the attack in Charlottesville — one of them being John Oliver.

Trump said in a press conference, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence — on many sides, on many sides. It’s been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump. Not Barack Obama. It’s been going on for a very long time.”

“Wait, on many sides?” Oliver said in response to Trump’s statement. “This was a white nationalist rally, you have to call that out by name. There honestly aren’t many instances in modern American politics where you can honestly think, ‘That guy really should have mentioned the Nazis,’ but this is emphatically one of them. It’s like a reverse Godwin’s Law: If you fail to mention Nazism, you lose the argument.”

Oliver added of Trump’s claim that “it’s been going on for a long time in our country,” “It seems Trump’s response to anything bad happening is always to immediately absolve himself of any personal responsibility. He’s the kind of guy who starts eulogies at funerals, saying, ‘Great guy, I didn’t kill him, but he’s a great guy and he’s dead — and I didn’t do it.’”