John Oliver rips into "awful" spectacle of Donald Trump's meeting with President Zelenskyy

The meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been, unsurprisingly, a magnet for political comedy. Saturday Night Live took it on and added a rogue Mike Myers Elon Musk impression for good measure. But Last Week Tonight didn’t fully agree with Trump’s assessment that the meeting would be “good television.” “Is watching the president shit on a weaker ally for not wanting to be conquered while his goon VP tries to see if he can wrap his lips around his boss’ arsehole from a neighboring couch ‘good television’?” John Oliver wondered in Sunday’s episode. “I’d argue it’s more ‘hit your TV with a hammer until the pain stops’ television, but reasonable people can disagree.”

Oliver continued, “The whole spectacle was awful. The Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. had her head in her hands, Marco Rubio seemed to be actively trying to sink inside the couch and, for what it’s worth, Zelenskyy has thanked Americans and the U.S. 33 times at the very least, which feels like enough. He shouldn’t be constantly urged to say thank you—he’s a president in the middle of a war, not a toddler opening a present from Meemaw.”