John Oliver mocked Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sunday over how he responded to a Michigan reporter’s joyous query at a marketing campaign occasion.
The “Final Week Tonight” host stated Donald Trump’s operating mate “continues to underwhelm” earlier than tossing to a clip of what he described because the “worst doable reply” to a “fairly simple query.”
“You will have been criticized as being slightly too severe, slightly indignant typically. What makes you smile? What makes you content?” requested Fox 2 Detroit’s Charlie Langton on Wednesday.
“Nicely, I smile at loads of issues together with bogus questions from the media, man,” replied Vance as he proceeded to snort.
He continued, “I imply, look, I believe in the event you watch, in the event you watch a full speech that I give, I really, I’m having trip right here and I’m having fun with this. However, look, typically you bought to take the great with the dangerous. And proper now, I’m indignant about what Kamala Harris has accomplished to this nation and accomplished to the American southern border.”
Oliver had a query of his personal for Vance after seeing the clip.
“Is he alright?” Oliver requested.
“He simply received requested what makes you smile, a query to which there’s nearly no unsuitable reply. You’ll be able to say my children, canine that sleep bizarre, a heat bathtub, canine that sleep bizarre, Cheez-It, which is by the way additionally the identify of this canine that sleeps bizarre.”
Oliver listed off “good solutions” Vance may have supplied the reporter earlier than referring to his border safety take as a response that’s “simply plain unsuitable.”
The host later performed a clip of Vice President Kamala Harris’ operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, that confirmed him and his daughter Hope Walz on a slingshot experience on the state truthful final yr.
Oliver stated you clearly don’t must ask Walz what “makes him smile” as he pointed to snaps of the Minnesota governor holding a piglet and getting hugged by kids after he signed a regulation that assured free college meals for teenagers in his state.
″[And there’s] him right here, seemingly remembering that he isn’t JD Fucking Vance,” stated Oliver as he flashed an image of Walz cracking a smile.