John Oliver goes off on Trump over Charlottesville
President Trump has been labeled a 'f****** idiot' in an on-air rage by John Oliver over the commander-in-chief's failure to condemn white nationalist demonstrators in Charlottesville.
The presenter opened yesterday's Last Week Tonight with a monologue condemning Trump, and implying Trump is 'feeding' Nazis.
In a press conference following the killing of anti-fascist demonstrator Heather Heyer when a car was deliberately driven into a crowd, the President stopped short of condemning the far right groups.
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John Oliver said the US now has a President who 'cannot even be bothered to f****** condemn (Nazis)'
Instead he said there was 'violence on many sides'.
Speaking on the show, Oliver said: 'On many sides? This was a white nationalist rally. You have to call that out by name.
'There honestly aren’t many instances in modern American politics where you could honestly think "That guy really should’ve mentioned the Nazis", but this is emphatically one of them.
'It’s like a reverse Godwin’s Law: if you fail to mention Nazism, you lose the argument.'
Referring to remarks by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke - a Trump supporter - Oliver said: 'It simply doesn't get easier than disavowing Nazis'
Oliver fumed: 'What kind of f****** idiot would not immediately distance himself from them?'
The 40-year-old continued: 'So there is clearly no point waiting for leadership from our president in moments like this, because it is just not coming, which means we will have to look to one another, because incredibly, in a country where previous presidents have actually had to defeat Nazis, we now have one who cannot even be bothered to f****** condemn them.'
Instead he fumed: 'What kind of f****** idiot would not immediately distance himself from them?.
'It simply doesn’t get easier than disavowing Nazis. It’s almost as much of a presidential gimme as pardoning a f****** turkey.'
In a press conference following the killing of anti-fascist demonstrator Heather Heyer when a car was deliberately driven into a crowd, the President stopped short of condemning the far right groups
Far-right demonstrators descended on Charlottesville this weekend, prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency
At least 19 people were injured when a car was deliberately driven into a crowd of anti-racism protesters.
White supremacist James Alex Fields Jr has been charged with second-degree murder.
Former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, who was in Charlottesville, told reporters that the far-right demonstrators wanted to 'fulfill the promises of Donald Trump'.
Saying he wanted to 'take our country back', Duke said: 'That’s what we believed in. That’s why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he’s going to take our country back.'
Oliver observed: 'I’ve gotta say, David Duke and the Nazis really seem to like Donald Trump'.
He continued:'And that kind of connection there is something that anyone in their right mind would want to immediately and repeatedly disavow, and it’s not like Trump wasn’t given the opportunity.'
The President has been heavily praised from the extreme right, with white supremacist site The Daily Stormer wrote: 'No condemnation at all. When asked to condemn, he just walked out of the room. Really, really good. God bless him,” they wrote.'