John Oliver devours Donald Trump’s 'absolutely insane' last seven days

“Last Week Tonight is actually going to talk about the last week tonight,” started John Oliver. “Because the last seven days have been absolutely insane.”

“We have to track the latest developments in ‘Stupid Watergate’, a scandal with all the potential ramifications of Watergate but where everyone involved is stupid and bad at everything.”

Of course, the comedian was talking about Donald Trump’s whirlwind week, kickstarting on Monday with revelations the President revealed ‘code-word’ classified information to the Russians.

“You should not even share those secrets with your closest friends which, of course, in Trump’s case is the caddie he calls Stave even though his name is Doug, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and the ghost of Roger Ailes.”

Despite one news pundit calling the revelation seismic, the James Comey memo on Tuesday, claiming Trump asked him to stop investigating National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, overshadowed everything.

Then, on Wednesday — “just four days ago, which is the equivalent of 150 years in 2017 time” — Trump addressed the coastguard academy, using the speech to claim: “No politician in history, has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

Oliver then listed off numerous politicians who have died serving their country, including President James Garfield who “was shot. Then, to find the bullet, Alexander Graham Bell devised a kind of metal detector, which did not work, so doctors tried to fish around in his gut for the bullet with unwashed fingers, which made his infection worse, so he died in horrible pain.”

“But yeah, Alec Baldwin does a mean impression of you on TV, so it’s basically the same.”

That same day, the Department of Justice appointed a special counsel to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia. Then, on Thursday, there was a televised White House meeting where Comey seemingly tried to hide in window curtains.

Friday, another revelation, as the NYT leaked a report documenting Trump’s meeting with the Russian ambassadors in which the President called Comey a “nut job” and said: “I just fired the head of the FBI…I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Oliver smirked: “It’s almost difficult to believe your ears when you hear something that sounds so audaciously corrupt. It’s like if Hilary Clinton sent an email with the headline ‘Sup, I did Benghazi.’”

Before the week finished, another significant news story; a leaked document from the Russian investigation that revealed another member of Trump’s administration was a “person of interest”.

The host then showed multiple Fox News snippets calling the reports “unhinged” and “not sexy”, concluding, however, that even some anchors have begun to doubt Trump. Oliver also noted how multiple politicians have begun talking about impeachment.

Concluding the segment, the ex-Community actor noted how Trump was looking disenfranchised with his new political life, saying: “Say what you will about Nixon, he at least wanted to be there.”

Last week, Oliver demanded Congress intervene following the Comey scandal first unravelling. “The Founding Fathers created a system of checks and balances to limit the power of the President,” he said at the time, “but it only works if someone f**king checks, or balances. And if you don’t, it’s no longer on Trump. It’s on you.”