John Oliver Bad-Mouths Trump’s Decision to Withdrawal From Paris Agreement

John Oliver lashed out against Donald Trump for reciting a “flamboyantly deceptive” speech when he announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement. The Last Week Tonight host mocked Trump while referring to him as a “f—–g egomaniac” during Sunday’s episode.

“Earth, the adopted home of Björk: the reason we have to talk about Earth is this,” Oliver said before showing clips of Trump’s speech at the White House Rose Garden last week.

Oliver called Trump’s decision “hardly surprising” as he reflected on the country’s loss.

“But pulling out of this is a huge deal,” he said. “They were happy because they secured a landmark victory for the future of the planet, you f—–g egomaniac. The whole world is not secretly conspiring against the United States.”

He continued to call Trump out on his “ludicrous misunderstanding” of the climate change agreement and addressed the president’s belief that the historic deal negatively impacted American businesses. However, 25 American businesses bought advertisements in the New York Times in an attempt to persuade Trump to continue the U.S.’ involvement in the accord.

“Well, come on. He was clearly never going to be convinced by an ad in the New York Times,” Oliver said. “How was he going to see it? If those companies really wanted to get his attention, they needed to talk KFC into putting put a full-bucket ad which he could read on the toilet while eating chicken, because that, at his core, is who our president is.”

Although he blasted Trump’s controversial withdrawal, Oliver claimed the president may have done American citizens a “favor.”

“Trump may have inadvertently done us a tiny favor this week, because the problem with climate change is that it’s always felt so abstract and impersonal and far off in the future,” he said. “The usual symbols that we use don’t do much to fix or help that. It’s either a graph that’s difficult to understand or a sad polar bear on a small piece of ice. And it’s hard to get emotionally fired up over that.”

With optimism, he believes there is a possible silver lining to breaking away from the deal because it has added fuel to the climate change movement around the world.

“But this week, the climate change movement may have gotten a symbol to rally around, because apparently it was never quite enough to motivate ourselves out of love for this large gassy orb. But maybe, just maybe, we can now motivate ourselves to do something out of our loathing on this one,” he said as he pointed to a picture of Trump.

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