John Oliver Addresses Trump Mentions In Epstein Emails

As with SNL yesterday, John Oliver discussed the recent release of 20,000 new pages of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, in which President Donald Trump is overwhelmingly mentioned.

The political comic kicked off his program by referencing one particular email in which the disgraced financier called the POTUS the worst person he knows, saying he’s “dangerous” and that there’s “not one decent cell in his body.”

“Wow, that doesn’t look great,” Oliver remarked, “when even the guy running the pervert express to crime island thinks that you are a dick, that has got to sting.”

He continued, adding, “I know that Trump seems immune to shame, but c’mon, at some point he’s going to look at himself in the mirror and, even if briefly, think: ‘None as bad as me? Captain Freak of the floating sex dungeon thinks I am the worst? Fuck, that is rough.’”

Oliver also slammed media personality Megyn Kelly for what was widely interpreted online as distasteful comments in which she insisted Epstein was not actually a pedophile because he was more so “into” teenage girls and not younger children.

“I am clearly no stranger to sharing upsetting numbers with my audience, but please do kill me if I ever start doing pedophile math,” he said.

The late-night host then pivoted to his main segment of the night, dedicated to government-funded free and independent public media, which has since been gutted by the Trump administration. Toward the end of the season finale episode, Oliver announced the show’s first-ever auction — with the help of guest Joel McHale — in support of public media, which will last until Nov. 24 and includes memorabilia for sale like a gigantic bronze cast of Lyndon B. Johnson’s testicles, Russell Crowe’s jockstrap from Cinderella Man and a Bob Ross original painting “Cabin at Sunset.”

In the most recent update to the Epstein file saga and in a stark reversal, Trump has called on House Republicans to vote for the release of the documents during an upcoming congressional referendum on Tuesday.

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