Before addressing how Donald Trump has been handling the Hong Kong protests on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver made sure to point out that the president was looking into buying Greenland this week. …
Oliver said that the protestors have been resourceful using umbrellas as shields, lasers to distract authorities and organizing on the dating app Tinder. “Fantastic news for someone in Hong Kong struggling to explain to their significant other what they were doing looking at Tinder,” he snarked.
Because of the protests, Chinese have sent armored personnel to the border and have escalated their rhetoric saying protestors show signs of terrorism. Oliver also points out that the state media has framed these the protests as the work of foreign forces — specifically the CIA. “No one is saying that the CIA does not have a long, sh***y history of meddling in other country’s politics,” he said. “It helped overthrow the Iranian government and reinstall the shah, it sponsored the Bay of Pigs invasion and it created the showHe said that all indications of the protests is local and is the result of long-simmering internal tensions. And if CIA is plotting something, the no one told Trump.
“Trump giving a tacit endorsement to give China to use force against protestors is not surprising,” he remarked. “He sends the wrong signals to countries all the time. Until his term ends, we are going to have to live with the fact that we have a president who looks at America’s allies and says ‘go f*ck yourself; looks at Russian interference in our elections and says ‘no big deal!’ and looks at Greenland and says ‘200 bucks plus Don Jr.
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