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The Guardian // Entertainment // TV

John Oliver on the US election: ‘Despair doesn’t help anything’

Monday 11th November 2024, 4:12PM

Last Week Tonight host tries to process the re-election of Trump, counts the small victories and looks ahead“It has been a rough week,” said John Oliver on Sunday evening, days after the majority of American voters elected Donald Trump to a second term as president, “which is, to put it mildly, not what I was personally hoping would happen. And honestly, in Trump’s victory speech, he couldn’t seem to believe it either.”Oliver played a clip from Trump’s characteristically rambling victory speech, in which he boasted: “We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible, and it is now clear that we’ve achieved the most incredible political thing … Look what happened. Is this crazy?” Continue reading...

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