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John Oliver Likens Elon Musk’s DOGE To Viral ‘Wonka’ Experience: “Stark Disconnect Between Marketing And Reality”
John Oliver drew parallels between Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency and the shoddy Willy Wonka immersive experience in the U.K.
The ill-fated Wonka experience and John OliverLast Week Tonight Oliver began the episode by criticizing the newly formed contracted organization as having “no idea what they’re doing,” pointing to an example where head Elon Musk mistakenly stated that its haphazard slashing of federal spending has resulted in $55 billion in total estimated savings. As NPR estimated, the savings actually amounted closer to $2 billion, which Oliver quipped was “a lot of numbers away” from the originally touted figure. Earlier in the program, Oliver also mocked Musk’s bizarre chainsaw display at CPAC, in which he celebrated DOGE’s gutting of government jobs by whipping around the power tool at random.
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