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John Oliver on Trump tariffs: ‘Their plan to shoot the economy in the dick’
The Last Week Tonight host tears into dubious tariff math and Republican fixation with trans athletes in sports
John Oliver ripped into Donald Trump ’s disastrous tariffs on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, starting with the president’s claim that “this will be indeed the golden age of America.” Oliver showed how conservatives pivoted to trans athletes after their hyper-focus on gay marriage failed, and are now spending millions on ads and championing supposed fairness issues while ignoring the systemic inequalities long plaguing women’s sports. Oliver concluded by asking that would-be good-faith debaters “recognize the ugliness with how this issue gets discussed, and how it’s been cynically used by some to advance the eradication of trans people generally”.
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