John Oliver on Donald Trump’s ‘Sarcastic’ Week: ‘Part of Me Is Going to Miss Him When He’s Gone’

Donald Trump is too close to actually becoming president for most late-night hosts to engage in the “I’ll miss him when he’s gone” talk. At least not yet. But John Oliver, driven to a kind of lunatic giddiness after Trump’s week of kidding-not-kidding proclamations about Obama, ISIS, and election-stealing, finally admitted, “I cannot wait for this campaign to be over, but part of me is going to miss him when he’s gone.”

Oliver reported on the events of what he called the “imploding star” of the Trump campaign, which included Trump accusing President Obama of founding ISIS, then repeatedly declining to walk the statement back despite repeated efforts by radio-host apologists to give him an out, before ultimately claiming that he was being sarcastic … “but not that sarcastic.”

“He’s like a guy drowning but waving off a life boat, saying ‘Get outta here, I’m very buoyant, I’m the most buoyant. Everybody talks about my buoyancy, I’m a tremendous floater.”

Never one to settle for just the circus-sideshow aspects of following current events, Oliver also presented a segment on predatory auto lending, a kind of eat-your-vegetables segment that was nonetheless eye-opening and infuriating. And since a segment on auto lending invariably requires some kind of goosing in the entertainment department, Keegan-Michael Key shows up near the end to lend a comedy assist.

[You can stream Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO GO and HBO Now.]