John Oliver Roasts Fox News Host Over Donald Trump’s Reflecting Pool Comment

John Oliver Roasts Fox News Host Over Donald Trump’s Reflecting Pool Comment

(Photo Credit: LastWeekTonight/YouTube) John Oliver took a jab at Jesse Watters for defending Donald Trump‘s remarks about the Reflecting Pool. The Last Week Tonight host criticized the failed renovation project, citing algal growth and peeling blue sealant. While Watters backed Trump’s suggestion that vandals may have damaged the pool, Oliver hit back at the claim and even referenced Watters’ 2018 divorce during the argument. John Oliver mocks …

John Oliver Compares Reflecting Pool Fiasco To Sex With The Grinch — And We're Forever Scarred

The comedian roasted the renovation as an "absolute train wreck" during the latest edition of "Last Week Tonight."

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Trump’s Green Pool, Stephen Miller’s Missing Reflection

It was a week of comeuppance. For Trump symbolically, Putin seriously—and David Shuster counted down the 5 sharpest AI satire clips that captured it. At No. 5, a disoriented Vladimir Putin wakes up exactly where he belongs--in hell, where his approval rating is finally reflects the truth at zero percent. Then you'll find 3 takes on Trump’s self-own of an algae-green reflecting pool. These include a Doobie Brothers “Black Water” rewrite. A vampir…

‘Pathetic!’ John Oliver Roasts Fox’s Jesse Watters for Pushing Trump’s Reflecting Pool ‘Sabotage Conspiracy’

John Oliver roasted Fox News host Jesse Watters Sunday for pushing President Donald Trump’s claims that vandalism, not botched construction, was behind problems plaguing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, dismissing the theory as “pathetic.” On HBO’s Last Week Tonight, the comedian revisited the ongoing controversy surrounding Trump’s renovation of the iconic Washington landmark. “Trump’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool con…

John Oliver Likens the Current Condition of D.C. Reflecting Pool to Sex With the Grinch: “Green, Smelly”

"Another of Trump's pet projects continues to unravel," the 'Last Week Tonight' host said on Sunday's show.