John Oliver Mocks Trump, Ballroom, Reflecting Pool
John Oliver took aim at President Donald Trump‘s plans for a “huge” ballroom — something he’s done before and also before that — and his contradictory claims over upgrades on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. Oliver started out by pointing to Trump‘s social media post amid his trip to China wherein he noted that “China has a Ballroom, and so should the U.S.A.! It is under construction ahead of schedule and will be the finest facility of its kind anywhere in the U.S.A.” Said Oliver: “Because incredibly, despite everything going on in the world right now, Trump’s still relentlessly focused on what’s been called a ‘sweeping makeover’ of the White House and Washington D.C. In the past year, he’s installed two massive flagpoles, a Presidential Walk of Fame outside the White House, paved over the Rose Garden and redecorated the Oval Office, as if to answer the question, ‘What if an ancient Egyptian pharaoh owned an Airbnb?’” Oliver then showed video of Trump last week making the argument that all …
