Four years after predicting an expensive, ineffective and racist policy, The Last Week Tonight host checks in on Trump’s signature promise of the border wall
In the run-up to the 2016 election, John Oliver explained the destructive risks of then-candidate Trump’s “build the wall” sloganeering in a Last Week Tonight segment: it was “transparently racist” as a mantra and both expensive and pointless as a policy. Four years later, Oliver returned to the subject on Sunday, because “while we predicted the whole thing would be a shamble, the extent to which that’s been true even we didn’t see coming.
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