John Oliver Mocks Donald Trump's 'Non-Innovation' On 'Last Week Tonight'
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The host trolled the former president in a segment about corn.
John Oliver taunted former President Donald Trump in a “Last Week Tonight” segment on the corn industry Sunday.
The host noted the “long history of American politicians being weird around corn” on the campaign trail to “pander” to corn-farming regions. He offered Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and George W. Bush as examples.
“But perhaps no one has ever been weirder while discussing it than this,” Oliver said, cutting to a January speech Trump gave in New Hampshire.
“I just met non-liquid gold. You know where it was? Iowa! It’s called corn,” Trump said in the clip. “It’s not liquid. That’s my take. You have more non-liquid gold. They said, ‘What is that?’ I said, ‘Corn!’ They said, ‘We love that idea.’ That’s a nickname in its own way, but we came up with .... a new couple of words for corn!”
Oliver acted befuddled and showed off his ear for corn comedy.