John Oliver Makes 'Incredibly S**t' Prediction About The Next 4 Years

The "Last Week Tonight" host also shared his thoughts on how to "get through this."

John Oliver delivered his first “Last Week Tonight” episode since Donald Trump took office with a bleak assessment of how things are going so far: “This is all bonkers, terrifying and darkly absurd.”

“The next four years are going to feel incredibly shit,” the comic predicted at the end of his show’s Season 12 premiere on Sunday. “The potential for pain is devastating, as is the sheer amount of it that’s already been doled out.”

He continued:

“We see wealthy, powerful men use the levers of government for their personal advantage as well as their personal grievances, and we’re being governed by people who think good public policy consists of: ‘cut off funding to anyone who isn’t me,’ ‘make it illegal to mention people who are different from me,’ and ‘fuck it, let’s steal Canada while we’re at it.’”

Oliver used his monologue to unpack some of the most shocking developments over the past four weeks. Among them: the Trump administration has frozen billions of dollars in federal assistance, citing the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s mission to slash wasteful spending; threatened to punish federal workers who fail to report any diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives taking place in their departments; and rankled the country’s two biggest trade partners with tariff threats.