Chef John Oliver Roasts a Prime Drumpf

Well, citizens of Earth. It might be time to start building bomb shelters. Just in case. Because shit is getting ugly... Noam Chomsky is a respected political activist and he seems to think that the situation in the USA with the Muslim community is worse than the situation in Germany with the Jewish community prior to the rise of the Nazis.

It's not a hard thing to believe either. Presidential candidate Donald Trump has been building up his support-base on a foundation of fear. Fear of illegal Mexican immigrants and Syrian refugees. Pope Francis recently all-but-said Trump is not a Christian because he focuses on building walls instead of opening doors.

David Duke, a white supremacist and a former Grand Wizard of the terrorist organization the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), recently publically endorsed Trump, saying that for white voters to vote for anyone but Trump would be treason to their heritage. When questioned about it, Trump wouldn't condemn Duke and white supremicists, which is just as good as saying you don't mind having them around. Instead Trump claimed total ignorance about white supremacist groups and the KKK. "Certainly I would disavow [them] if I thought there was anything wrong." Trump said. Since he hasn't disavowed any white supremacist groups, his statement implies he must not think anything is wrong with them.

And Trump led the polls on Super Tuesday, so that probably means he's the Republican primary candidate. This situation is getting stressful. We could all use a big laugh right about now.

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Queue not-yet-legendary-but-damn-well-getting-there comedian John Oliver.

He's the host of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. If you're not familiar with the show, it airs on HBO Sunday Nights and it's bloody awesome. HBO allows them to post some snippets on their Youtube channel every so often and they always generate a huge amount of buzz. In partcular you might enjoy his takedown of fraudulent televangelical churches. Back in August 2015, He actually founded a church called Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption as a part of a segment, in order to show the folly of a taxless church system. That church has since closed but you can still enjoy the segment about corruption in televangelical churches. It's hilarious!

So funny right? The perfect blends of irony, outrage, and ludicrousness. Oliver really knows how to present ugly information in a way that can make us laugh... and that's something we desperately need at a time like this. The show has been called "very boring," by Trump, and that is a fact which they are proudly advertising at the time of this writing.

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There's been some bad blood between Trump and the show, not the least of which results from Trump calling out comedian and mentor figure to John Oliver, Jon Stewart, for changing his name from Jonathan Leibowitz, claiming Stewart should have pride in his heritage. (Sounds like something a racial supremicist might say, to me.)

Well now Oliver has returned with a recipe for some Roast Trump... or should I say Drumpf? That's right, it looks like John Oliver was able to uncover information showing that Trump's family name wasn't always Trump, which casts his comment about pride in heritage into a deeply ironic shade. The story is tracable back to an article written in September 2015 by the New York Daily News but I did a bit of digging and found a story highlighting the same detail in the International Business times from 2011. Check out the video below.

So let's remind Trump how important heritage is, and all start calling him Drumpf. Just for a laugh. They've already got a chrome extension out to alter your cyber reality towards a more humorous one. And maybe that's one step closer to making the world a more amusing place. Sure the world is heading to Hell in a hand-basket, but at least we can get a laugh or two out of it.

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