John Oliver pokes fun at Tom Brady, slams Trump’s ‘ineffective, racist’ border wall
John Oliver took a shot at the New England Patriots legend during a segment about President Trump's border wall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZRE6uVMDAo
John Oliver sure loves to make New Englanders mad.
A day after the town of Danbury, Conn., announced it had renamed its sewage plant after the HBO host because of jokes Oliver made at the town’s expense, Oliver tossed in a joke about a New England sports icon during Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight.”
Oliver did a deep dive on the state of President Donald Trump’s signature border wall initiative, a timely segment considering former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday for defrauding donors to the “We Build The Wall” online fundraising effort.
One portion of the segment looked at Fisher Sand and Gravel, one of the companies involved in construction. Although the company’s designs were turned down by the Department of Homeland Security and Army Corps of Engineers early in the process, company CEO Tommy Fisher appeared on Fox News 10 times to praise Trump and stump for his business.
In one segment, Fisher told host Laura Ingraham that Fisher Sand and Gravel was like Tom Brady (“No different than Tom Brady, once we go in, we never come out”). In the end, Fisher Sand and Gravel landed a government contract to help build the wall, reportedly because Trump liked what he saw from Fisher on television.
As Oliver pointed out, the company doesn’t have the most sterling reputation: The federal government sued the company for sexual discrimination, and both Fisher and his son Michael were accused of tax fraud in 2009, with Michael pleading guilty and the company ultimately paying more than $1 million in back taxes.
“Wow. So they cheated to get ahead, got caught, and yet are still around,” Oliver said. “Turns out they really are the Tom Brady of the construction industry.”
Oliver finished the show by poking fun at Trump for recently inquiring about how he could be added to Mount Rushmore, saying that the border wall was a sufficient physical monument to the president’s legacy.
“There’s perhaps nothing more emblematic of his presidency than this wall,” Oliver said. “It’s destructive, pointless, ineffective, racist, weak, and something that the damages of which we’re going to have to be dealing with for a very long time.”
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