"Donald Trump" | |
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episode | |
John Oliver urges viewers to refer to Donald Trump as "Donald Drumpf"
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Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 3 (segment) |
Presented by | John Oliver |
Original air date | February 28, 2016 |
Running time | 22 minutes |
"Donald Trump" is a segment of the HBO news satire series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, devoted to Donald Trump, who later became the President of the United States. It was first aired on February 28, 2016, as part of the third episode of the third season, when Trump was the frontrunner for the Republican Party nomination for the presidency. During the 22-minute segment, comedian John Oliver discusses Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and his career in business, outlining his campaign rhetoric, varying political positions and failed business ventures. He also says the Trump family name was changed at one point from the ancestral name "Drumpf".
The segment, which is the show's most viewed to date, popularized the term "Donald Drumpf" – which as Oliver stated, was coined with the intent to uncouple the grandeur of the last name so Trump's supporters would be able to better acknowledge his political and entrepreneurial flaws, and started a campaign urging viewers to "Make Donald Drumpf Again" – a play on Trump's own campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again". To date, this is the only episode in which Oliver has described Trump explicitly as "Drumpf".
The 22-minute segment about Donald Trump was delivered by John Oliver on February 28, 2016, during the third episode of the third season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. At the start of the episode's main segment, Oliver introduces the topic of Trump's presidential campaign by referring to it and his darkhorse popularity among Republican voters and supporters who traditionally did not vote in past Presidential elections as "America's back mole", saying "It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now that it's become frighteningly bigger, it's no longer wise to ignore it."