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John Oliver on Trump’s dismantling of USAID: ‘What this administration has done is beyond cruel’

man in suit speaks with hands gestured, a graphic for USAID on screen
John Oliver on the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID: ‘This is a man-made disaster.’ Photograph: Youtube

On the latest Last Week Tonight, John Oliver examined the Trump administration’s gutting of USAID, the international aid agency once described as “the world’s single largest humanitarian donor”. Donald Trump, naturally, called it “a scam” where there was “very little being put to good use”.

“Set aside the irony of Donald Trump, of Trump University, accusing anything of being a fraud,” said Oliver. “You can’t just call something a scam because you don’t like it. I want to call low-rise jeans a scam. I feel like Peppa Pig is a fraud. I believe that radical lunatics run Jamba Juice. But even I acknowledge that my feelings don’t make any of those thoughts true.”

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