{"id":568579,"date":"2023-04-03T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T04:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-john-oliver-barely-addressed-donald-trumps-indictment-on-last-week-tonight\/"},"modified":"2023-04-03T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T04:31:18","slug":"why-john-oliver-barely-addressed-donald-trumps-indictment-on-last-week-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-john-oliver-barely-addressed-donald-trumps-indictment-on-last-week-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why John Oliver Barely Addressed Donald Trump\u2019s Indictment on \u2018Last Week Tonight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n You knew John Oliver would bring up Donald Trump\u2019s indictment by a grand jury, and he expected you to expect him to. The problem is, he doesn\u2019t feel like we know enough about the actual charges to even talk about it.<\/p>\n

\n Joking it had been a \u201cquiet\u201d week, Oliver started out Sunday\u2019s episode of HBO\u2019s Last Week Tonight<\/em> by noting that some of the biggest news<\/a> of the past seven days had been the revelation that the Tyrannosaurus rex had lips, CBS\u2019 daytime drama The Young and the Restless\u2019 <\/em>celebrating 50 years on the air and a photo of the pope wearing a puffy jacket going viral before it was revealed to be fake.<\/p>\n

\n Oh, and a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cDonald Trump became the first-ever former president to be indicted on criminal charges,\u201d Oliver said, adding emphatically: \u201cLook, I would talk more about the Trump indictment if we even knew what the exact charges were right now<\/em>, but we don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Instead, he used his opening segment to address the protests in France \u2014 which he called \u201cEurope\u2019s high school bully\u201d \u2014 over the recently raised retirement age. Citizens have taken to the streets by marching, striking, chanting and even setting fires to protest President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s unpopular retirement reform, which raised France\u2019s legal retirement age from 62 to 64. He pushed the bill through France\u2019s parliament without a vote.<\/p>\n

\n Oliver played footage from a news broadcast showing that even the firefighters have stopped working to put out the fires and instead joined sides with the protesters.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s true,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cPeople are so pissed at what Macron\u2019s been doing that firefighters have started siding with fire instead of him, and it\u2019s honestly kind of jarring to see fires in Paris that were started by something other than their usual cause \u2014 the explosive heat generated by Ina and Jeffrey [Garten]\u2019s relentless fucking at their Parisian apartment,\u201d he joked of the couple who recently celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n

\n Oliver went on to point out that a retirement age of 62 is still pretty low among Western nations.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIn Germany, the comparable retirement age is 65. In Italy, it\u2019s 67. And in the U.S., the retirement age is NO<\/em>,\u201d he joked, showing a photo of an elderly man working at a Walmart. \u201cSo France is lucky to have the kind of bold social<\/a> welfare policy that\u2019s getting rarer nowadays, but that is probably why they are fighting so hard to protect it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Oliver also showed news footage of a couple enjoying wine at an outdoor cafe, completely ignoring a fire burning in the street just a few yards away, noting that moment was \u201cquintessentially French.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Said Oliver: \u201cWow, that is on brand. I think it is safe to say that after a nuclear holocaust, the only creatures left standing will be cockroaches and an outlandishly relaxed wine-sipping French couple entirely unfazed by the obliteration of society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n