Trump vs. Truth: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

We usually like to focus this part of the show on complex and depressing political issues, something fun like CO2 emissions from hearses or space poverty or the proliferation of special purpose tax districts, a topic so boring you didn't even notice that we literally already did it. exact story

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year and we want to keep doing that kind of thing, but unfortunately we can't until we tackle something even bigger, the concept of reality itself, and that's because of this guy since he took office about four hundred and twelve years ago . He has made it clear that reality is not important to him, think about it, he exaggerated the size of the crowd at his inauguration, he said the election was marred by massive voter fraud without any real proof of it, he also falsely claims that, Compared to Muslims, it was almost impossible for Christian refugees from Syria to enter the United States. he even lied about the weather during his inauguration it was almost raining the rain should have scared him but god looked down and said we're not going to let it rain in your speech no it didn't but it rained while you were speaking that's why Your wife was holding an umbrella and the people behind you were wearing ponchos and second, if God closed his only thought would have been to wait for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, come on, I'm sick of them and I'm God, would you?

I don't book silence always silence somehow boycotting this - so that's where we are currently we have a president able to stand in the rain and say it was a sunny day and before we continue, Donald Trump's life is clearly not a new observation liberals are probably thinking well, hot plate there Johnny, next you're going to tell me that Obama is distant Dick Cheney is evil and Paul Ryan doesn't climax buddy, check your Fitbit to see how many calories you've burned. I know what if you're on the other side, if you're on the right you're probably thinking, "Oh great, another

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with Johnny Hot Trigger and yeah, I know everyone else presidents had liked PolitiFact found that just over a quarter of President Obama's statement survey assessed was some degree or thoughts, but with Trump that number is currently over two-thirds, perhaps that's why a journalist who has been covering Trump found himself saying this, this is what makes covering Donald Trump so difficult.

What does he mean when he says? he says words Wow, what does he mean when he said words that we're talking about, being president, like hello to the party we've been on four dates with? I asked him if he was going out this Friday and he said probably dot dot dot me. I'm starving bicycle emoji poop emoji what does that mean? What does he mean when he says? Trump's relationship with the

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will be of profound importance in the future because any political discussion has to begin with a shared sense of reality and Trump's reality. can change in a single sentence when you hear four point nine and five percent unemployment the number is probably twenty eight twenty nine up to thirty five in fact I even recently heard forty two percent well which one is better because a four point A guy nine percent could lead to cautiously constructive monetary policy, while a rate of forty-two percent could lead to purge, so

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we thought it would be useful to try to answer four basic questions: how Are we getting a pathological liar in the White House? his lawyers come from why so many people believe him and what can we do about it and to that first question, Trump's lies are obviously nothing new, he has a well documented 40 year history of him lying about being a guest on this show and about Celebrity Apprentice's ratings posed as his own publicist he's building Trump Tower it's not as big as he said it's inflated the floor numbers it's a 58-story building it became a 68-story building made a lot of sense in his mind because if you're renting a room you'd rather be on the 14th floor than the 6th.

Just think about the confused firefighters showing up in that building and the smoke alarms going off in Penthouse B on the 68th floor, which is apparently a studio bedroom on 58th Street fast it's an emergency but lies like that are almost charming what's less harmless is when he started lying about the president's birth certificate and then, as a presidential candidate, he started making troubling statements like these, the murder rate in the United States is the worst, the highest it has been in 45 years, now our president wants to receive 250,000 from Syria, our gross domestic product, a sign of strength, true, but not for us, it was below from scratch.

Who has heard of this? Okay, okay, so real quick with those that don't. one no is no, it didn't and no one has heard of a GDP below zero because that is impossible. It horrified him for office, but we were so used to Trump's nonsense that people could ignore it because Donald was Donald, even his own advisors like Peter Thiel argued that people shouldn't worry about his statement, but he didn't actually say that in Serious. I think a lot of voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously, but not literally, and that's why when they hear things like the Muslim comment or the wall. comments or things like that, the question is not whether we are going to build a wall like the Great Wall of China or do you know exactly how you are going to force these tests, what are we going to have here. we're going to have a more sensible and sensible immigration policy, oh yeah, that's definitely the feeling I had watching those strong demonstrations.

Yeah, well, we all sang furiously. Build that wall. We all understand in this context. The wall is a clever use of the metonymy a or a. figure of speech in which a word wall in this example is used as a substitute for a singer. A more sensible immigration policy now, if you allow yourself to look at it, the travel ban literally happened and as for the wall, the wall is being designed correctly. now a lot of people say oh oh Trump was just joking with the Watterson Idol kid exactly when he says he's going to build a wall he's serious now it could be 30 feet tall and labeled 156 stories but a seal is coming so It was worth taking seriously.

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about his solutions to the problems he lied about and now he is making real policy based on facts of faith, which brings us to our second question, where does his information come from now? ? Trump himself has admitted that he gets a lot from television, which may explain why he speaks so confidently about basic cable news topics like crime and terrorism, but when it comes to the nuts and bolts of government, like the triad nuclear power, with which he now struggles, failed a question about the Triad. during an initial debate in an exchange that ended like three legs of the Triad that you have a priority, they want to go to the wrong Senator.

I think I sound nuclear, it's just that power and devastation are very important to me. That's terrifying. The components of that triad are important. It is unacceptable not to be able to name each of them. They are nuclear weapons. They are not your children. What's it called? Donald. What's it called? I'll give you a clue. Begin. with ki and it's not the other one and one would hope that since he's frozen he's now getting information from primary sources and reports, but the fool still watches a phenomenal amount of cable news, his tweets frequently echo things that just happened aired on television just two

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Ungrateful traitor Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, now calls President Obama a terrible weak leader, which is interesting because Chelsea Manning never used the words weak leader, but that phrase was used on Fox News for only 15 minutes before he tweeted in a segment that also called Manning an ungrateful traitor, so the president seems to tweet about whatever information he just saw on cable news, if someone changed the channel to Sprout Network among Colliers, life is boring even for a sad transitive, it gives you an idea of ​​how much he watches your cable a few hours later, he was on Air Force One and you could actually hear the Fox News commercials blaring in the background, that's real, It's the jingle of the Empire carpet playing at full blast.

Trump just made the inside of Air Force One sound like the living room of an elderly person who died three days ago and whom no one has found yet watches so much television at the table that he presumably also receives daily reports of this type. I am a professional cowboy and I use catheters. I have been a cowboy for 25 years. I have broken 14 bones, had two concussions and a punctured lung. I know pain and I don't want more, especially when I can, okay, stop. I have so many questions. Is calf a real verb if you've only been a cowboy for a long time? 25 years what you did before you were cowboys and why are you in a library and one who doesn't want to go overboard with the book I'm fascinated by the trunk not only does he watch cable news he also takes information in a terrifying way from unreliable sources like Breitbart, the organization that gives us gave Steve Fallon C Fallon, now Trump's chief strategist.

Breitbart has published these kinds of eligible stories about how birth control makes women unattractive and crazy racists. Planned Parenthood's pro-Nazi roots revealed and raised the Confederates high and proud. The flag proclaims a glory of heritage, you know, the kind of headline you see your old high school friends share on Facebook and think, oh, that's a shame. I guess Greg sucks now, but Trump's trust in Breitbart actually goes back a few years. Trump was challenged by Bill O'Reilly, who correctly pointed out that his claim that thousands of Muslims were seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11 was not based on any evidence, and here's how Trump responded why I wrote that I'm wrong. .

You know, this just came out of Breitbart, I mean, literally, it just came out. Trump claimed 100% and then to me thousands of people would have been reported to be hanging around Dyl. This article says they were swarming everywhere, so I don't know. what that means, but it means that a lot of people waiting to delay a Breitbart article doesn't make you seem more credible, you might as well have said, oh, hold on for a second bill, hey, okay Frank, you're on the right track, bill, what type of conversation with them. and direct options even worse because he also cited nautical to support his Muslims in the 9/11 claim of Infowars, a website run by this guy.

Hillary and Obama want to make you poor and pathetic. We have all your white papers. They hate you. They hate prosperity. They hate God, they hate children and God damn them. Now that man is Alex Jones and it's actually him at his most preventable Sammis Alex Jones in a job interview. That's Alex Jones meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time now at his most candid moment. He has argued that the government has the ability to control tornadoes, that the Boston Marathon bombing was a false flag attack, and that tap water is a daytime bomb and that they are putting chemicals in the water that turned damned people gay. frogs and then there's the Sandy Hook school shooting, yes, Sandy Hook is a completely fake synthetic with, in my opinion, fabricated actors.

I couldn't believe it at first. I knew they clearly had actors there, but I thought they killed off some real kids and that shows how bold they are. They clearly used actors now, that's not only offensive, it's stupid if the government had actually hired child actors, there's no way their parents on stage would have stopped talking about it, well, he didn't understand the tide commercial, but he liked a lead role in a government-sponsored false flag attack is the same director who made the moon landing very excited Trump is apparently such a bigot that Alex Jones himself has said it's surreal to talk about issues here on the air and then it was the word here Trump said it two days later and I will be skeptical about it, if Trump hasn't gone on Jeonggi's show and said this, I just want to end by saying that your reputation is too incredible, I won't disappoint you, you will be very, very impressed, I hope and I'll do it.

I think we'll be talking about that, you know, I guess it makes sense that Donald Trump would want to impress Alex Jones, why would you want to drain the swamp? It's not to eradicate, although gay frogs say it's you to stay where you are. However, this is really dangerous because there is a pattern here. Trump sees something that matches his view of his world, he doesn't half-check it, he remembers it and then passes it on, at which point he takes on a life of its own and seems to validate himself, let me. Try to show them that machine in action.

Trump's constant claim that millions of people voted illegally originated, as far as can be seen, from a guy on Twitter who claimed in November, without providing any evidence, that we have verified more than 3 million votes cast by non-citizens. the next day, Infowarspicked up on that and spread like jet fuel among right-wing sites. Now he was quickly discredited by multiple outlets, but despite that, days later, translated legs, Trump began tweeting about billions of illegal votes and serious voter fraud in states like California. and in early December, people appeared on television expressing similar concerns. Voting is a privilege in this country and it must be legal, not like in California, where 3 million illegals voted.

Where do you get your media information from? And that also answers our third question. why so many people believe in Trump because if you get your news from sources similar to him, like a lot of people, he doesn't seem like a nutcase, he seems like the first president to tell you the real truth, but rumors can be really tenacious and I'll test that on What rumor do you think of when you hear the name Richard Gere? Well, here's the thing. There's no proof that he did it. If you think about it, it's ridiculous. Have you ever had one of those things?

It was possible, but if the president came on TV and told you it was true, you would go. I knew that, thank you. I finally found out. Someone said it, but that loop becomes much more dangerous when you're not talking about something as silly as his supporters' gerbils validating their beliefs about voter fraud and, in turn, validating their own because even when directly confronted the lack of evidence, this is how he responded, you know it's important that millions of people agree with me when I say that if you had looked on one of the other networks and all the callers said we agree with Mr.

Trump, we agree that there are more people, right, but just because they believe you and you believe them doesn't mean it's true. This is like Peter Pan. We believe in fairies. We will continue to think about Abell alone. This is not something magical. Peter she has. Lou Gehrig's disease and maybe instead of clapping, you should do it in the ice bucket challenge, then she'll still be alive. I'm sorry, Peter, but she's dying. Think about dying like Poynting, even if you take the gentler approach and assume you're translating an honest, innocent mistake. passed on a new story without checking it when presented with a lack of evidence, ignored that fact, at which point he is lying and it seems like no one in the White House has a problem with that because when asked to justify the president's views, This is what Sean Spicer did.

I think the president had believed that he had for a time held a long-held belief. It was a comment he made on a deeply held belief. I've asked an inch of this question twice. He believes what he believes based on the information provided. He thinks what does that mean for democracy. I have answered his question. you know you haven't Melissa no you haven't it's hard for the incidence of voter fraud to be a verifiable fact and faith and facts are like Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton when you confuse them it actually matters real people gets hurt when you make policies based on false information billions will be spent on a wall that won't work to prevent a crime wave but isn't happening while refugees sit in dangerous situations to avoid Bowling Green style massacres they never had place, so what are we going to do right?

The press is going to be a key element in helping separate fact from fiction and they are under attack. This administration has taken advantage of small corrections in news coverage to paint critical media outlets as fake news, attempting to delegitimize them all, and this is only going to get worse. Steve Palin has already called the media an opposition party, although there appears to be a exception. News reports said the only seat reserved for media at Trump's press conference on Wednesday was in the front row and it was for Breitbart news, oh that. It's so late and favoritism, you're Snow White introducing the dwarves.

I find myself grumpy, sleepy, sneezing, incredibly big penis, calling Warf and the other three and anything out of character, thinking Breitbart went out of his way to ask a challenging question. Think again for state news in general. the problems of the center of the details and the course of the elections would be the reform that he recommends for this industry here and I actually have to follow up on the questions. It feels good? Will you let me know when you're coming just to make my head explode, it's obvious, for my friend, he will only go to one source to get his news, as one congressman happily pointed out, it's better to get his news directly from the president, in fact, it could be the only way to obtain the unvarnished truth. your news directly from the leader is basically North Korea's philosophy and the notion that our leaders should be able to convey this truth with impunity should be alarming to absolutely everyone, regardless of politics.

Republicans should desperately hope that our sense of objective reality remains intact. In case the Democrats ever find their own attractive reality star to take back the White House, Rupaul, for example, makes America fierce again with the hashtag and makes America equal to its peers again, but we must all commit to defending the reality of the facts, but this will require work as we move forward. I have already seen an outcry sparked against lawmakers and lawsuits are effective ways to try to drag the administration back to reality, but this also needs to come down to a personal level and we need to make an extra effort on social media to try to verify the stories before approving them. especially if they confirm our pre-existing biases, ask questions about yourself, such as whether this is a source I know and recognize, whether there is any fact-checking, whether it links to primary sources, and whether those sources match what the story says, and if you see a The outlet gets it wrong repeatedly and never corrects it, maybe stop trusting it, whether that outlet is an idiot blog or the White House and because I know our president won't follow any of those suggestions, in part because no wonder you don't watch this show, so if there is a small way we wanted to try to sneak some useful facts into your media diet, since now we know you watch the morning cable news forum, so we've created a series of commercials in an attempt to bring it up to date.

In addition, the information shows that we know that he looks every day, take a look at the pension catheter patient. I am a professional cowboy and I use catheters. I've been a cowboy for 25 years and there are two things I know. I don't like the pain when cat and the nuclear triad consists of land missiles, submarine launch, missiles and air bombers, this increases our ability to counterattack in any case one of them is destroyed and deters an attack against us or our allies, so that's the nuclear triad in case you're the kind of person who could really I need to know that all these tunnels in the DC area until we close them we also plan to educate Donald Trump one by one on topics that we're pretty sure that you don't know.

Here is just a space that could seem like a show of force. killing the families of terrorists, but according to the Geneva Convention, it is actually a war crime, not all black people live in the city center and not all people in the city center are black and there is something that maybe they don't know appetizer, fork, main dish set, I already know. Sometimes we may feel like you are the only person in the world, but as you can see here, there are actually many people who are not you, who we call other people just because it is cold sometimes, that doesn't mean there is no global warming , you are confusing. weather with weather partner Gabon is a country on the west coast of Africa Tiffany kill me kisum unemployment rate is a carefully calculated measure derived from a monthly survey conducted by two federal agencies and has been the agreed upon standard since 1948 and that little Friend Chico is what we call him, but tourists only remember Donald, if you don't know, it's okay to ask until tomorrow.