John Oliver used the opening segment of Last Week Tonight to mock Donald Trump‘s economic strategy of implementing global tariffs.
To kick things off, Oliver showed a video clip of Trump saying, “This will be indeed the golden age of America. It’s coming back.”
“If you mean ‘golden age,’ the way we tend to describe the last decade before an old person dies, then yes, it feels like we are very much in the golden age of America right now,” Oliver responded. “Thank you.”
The late-night host followed with a second clip of Trump showcasing a small chart of his tariffs, explaining he originally had a bigger one but the wind made it challenging because it “had no chance of standing.”
“That is smart, and it shows they really thought of everything that might go wrong while announcing their plan to shoot the economy in the dick,” Oliver said….
