John Oliver is firmly Group Zelenskyy in the case of the Ukrainian president’s latest public spat with Donald Trump. On a brand new episode of Final Week Tonight With John Oliver, the comic took pictures at President Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s public ambush of Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the White Home, calling their dealing with of the state of affairs “terrible” and the other of “good tv.”
Final week, Zelenskyy, Trump, and Vance convened on the Oval Workplace for a diplomatic dialog that devolved after Vance defended Trump’s strategy to Ukraine—which has been embroiled in a expensive and lethal struggle with Russia since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. In the course of the assembly, Trump accused Zelenskyy of being “disrespectful,” with Vance suggesting that Zelenskyy and Ukraine weren’t sufficiently grateful for the US’s help. Trump then chimed in, saying Zelenskyy was not “good” or “grateful” sufficient for US help. “I don’t suppose you’d be a troublesome man with out america,” mentioned Trump, earlier than including on the finish of their tense dialog that it was going to make “great television.”
Whereas the Kremlin appears to agree with Trump, Oliver vehemently disagrees. “That relies upon,” mentioned Oliver on Sunday’s Final Week Tonight. “Is watching the president shit on a weaker ally for not desirous to be conquered whereas his goon VP tries to see if he can wrap his lips round his boss’s asshole from a neighboring sofa ‘good tv’? I’d argue it’s extra ‘hit your TV with a hammer till the ache stops’ tv, however cheap individuals can disagree.”
He continued, saying that it was ridiculous for Vance and Trump to count on Zelenskyy to be kissing Trump’s ring. “He shouldn’t be consistently urged to say thanks,” mentioned Oliver. “He’s a president in the course of a struggle, not a toddler opening a gift from Meemaw.”
Ever the Vladimir Putin apologist, Trump additionally criticized Zelenskyy for saying destructive issues in regards to the president of Russia, with whom Zelenskyy is at the moment at struggle. “He doesn’t have to face there and say ‘Putin this, Putin that’—all destructive issues,” said Trump to press after their altercation. “Yeah, what’s Putin ever executed to Zelenskyy aside from kill tens of 1000’s of individuals and trigger untold harm to his nation?” Oliver sarcastically requested on Final Week Tonight. “Can’t he discover something good to say about him?”
Finally, Oliver discovered the incident to be deeply upsetting. “The entire spectacle was terrible,” he mentioned. “The Ukrainian ambassador to the US had her head in her palms, Marco Rubio appeared to be actively making an attempt to sink contained in the sofa, and for what it’s price, Zelenskyy has thanked People and the US 33 times on the very least, which looks like sufficient.”
