John Oliver’s latest advice to Donald Trump: ‘Drop out’
“If you drop out in order to teach America a lesson, you would not be a loser. You would be a legend.”
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As John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight went on a hiatus until the fall, the late-night host ended Sunday’s episode, his last one before the break, with a giant message for one of Oliver’s favorite people to talk about: Donald Trump.
“You’re going to win or you’re going to lose, and I think both those scenarios end pretty badly for you,” Oliver said in a monologue addressing the Republican presidential candidate. “Which is why, Mr. Trump — Donnie, Doniel — I would like to propose a third option. And that is: Drop out. Simply drop out and tell America that this entire candidacy was a stunt, a satire designed to expose flaws in the system.”
Oliver went on to explain why he thinks Trump could make a pretty good case for ceasing his campaign in that way.
“Just think about how triumphant it would feel to say on national television, ‘I openly ran on a platform of impossibly ignorant proposals steeped in racial bigotry and nobody stopped me,’” he said. “If you drop out in order to teach America a lesson, you would not be a loser. You would be a legend.”
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