I bet John Oliver wish he could take this back.
During the summer of 2013 when Oliver was filling in as host of the Daily Show on Comedy Central because then-host Jon Stewart was directing the film Rosewater, Oliver challenged Donald Trump to run for president in 2016.
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He actually didn’t just challenge Trump, he begged him.
“Do it,” Oliver implored. “I will personally write you a campaign check now on behalf of this country which does not want you to be president, but which badly wants you to run.”
Late night comedians, like Oliver and Stewart, were jovial when Trump announced that he decided to run in June of 2015 with Stewart even calling the announcement “a gift from heaven.”
But now reality is starting to set in with the possibility that Donald Trump might just be president, and they’re scrambling to take out the Republican nominee in any way they can.
In a segment from Last Week Tonight on HBO in September, Oliver dedicated nearly an entire show to break down why Donald Trump’s scandals are far worse than Hillary Clinton’s. Meanwhile, Jon Stewart has declared Trump can’t be president because he’s a “man baby” and that Trump supporters “don’t own America.”
So, what’s it going to be? You want to prop up candidates to make your audience laugh, yet don’t want them to get enough attention to possibly ruin your liberal agenda? It seems you can’t have it both ways.
Watch a segment from John Oliver’s challenge to Donald Trump:
