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John Oliver Takes Shots at Donald Trump’s “Cash Grabs,” From Mugshot T-Shirts to Truth Social Stock

The 'Last Week Tonight' host says the Truth Social share price, which beat expectations, is part of a "movement about funneling the little guy's money directly to the sh**iest rich arsehole there is."

Replied Oliver: “That is a man who talks nonstop about how he’s one of the richest men on Earth, begging strangers for money in a hostage video that looks like it was filmed in a house haunted by the world’s tackiest ghosts.” “But that value is utterly divorced from the underlying business, which is a mess,” Oliver said, noting that two of the people involved in the creation of the platform, Wes Moss and Andy Litinsky, were both fired from Trump’s former reality competition show The Apprentice. “There have been ads for a kid’s guide to fighting socialism, antiwoke life insurance, ivermectin, the official pillow of storming the Capitol and this bear, who recently lost custody of the twins,” he joked.

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