{"id":136293,"date":"2025-08-11T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136293\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:45:11","slug":"john-oliver-mocks-trump-white-house-roof-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136293\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Mocks Trump White House Roof Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/john-oliver\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-oliver_1\" data-tag=\"john-oliver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Oliver<\/a> is comparing President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trump_1\" data-tag=\"trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a>\u2018s recent stroll on the roof of the White House to a signature move by beloved Peanuts character Snoopy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOn Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/last-week-tonight\/\" id=\"auto-tag_last-week-tonight_1\" data-tag=\"last-week-tonight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last Week Tonight<\/a>, the host showed clips of Trump on Tuesday as he suddenly appeared on the White House flanked by Secret Service agents. Reporters down below, who were caught off guard, started lobbing questions at the president. Asked what he was doing up there, he replied: \u201cTaking a little walk. \u2026 It\u2019s good for your health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe action was reportedly related to a large ballroom he\u2019s proposed building on the property. The 90,000-square-foot project will reportedly cost $200 million to build.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSaying he was planning to build \u201csomething beautiful,\u201d Trump noted: \u201cIt\u2019s just another way to spend my money for the country.\u201d When asked to clarify, Trump replied: \u201cAnything I do is financed by me; in other words, contributed. Just like my salary is contributed, but nobody ever mentions that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJoked Trump: \u201cIt \u2026 says a lot about the chaos of this administration, that the president just fully Snoopied on national TV.\u201d He showed side-by-side images of Trump atop the White House and Snoopy sitting on top of his red doghouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ll probably forget about it by next week, and the thing is, it got even weirder,\u201d Oliver continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOliver then cut to footage of another reporter asking what he was \u201ctrying to build.\u201d Trump shouted down: \u201cMissiles. \u2026 Nuclear missiles.\u201d When the reporter asked him to confirm his said he was building more missiles, Trump then pumped his hand up and down at an angle to the side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSaid Oliver: \u201cYou know, that may actually be a perfect encapsulation of Trump\u2019s presidency: A bunch of people yelling, \u2018What the fuck are you doing?\u2019 while he does a C-minus Hitler impression.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Oliver is comparing President Trump\u2018s recent stroll on the roof of the White House to a signature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,5560,487,53747,54939,54940,82013,5005,277,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-136293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hbo","10":"tag-hbo-max","11":"tag-john-oliver","12":"tag-last-week-tonight","13":"tag-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver","14":"tag-politcs","15":"tag-president-donald-trump","16":"tag-trump","17":"tag-tv","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115008787228939037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}