John Oliver kicked off the fourth season finale of his Emmy-winning HBO talk show Last Week Tonight with a “lightning recap of the week,” including a brief riff on the biggest news out of Hollywood: the fall of renowned comedian Louis C.K. 
 
 Yes, this week in Tinseltown terribleness offered us “The New York Times reporting Louis C.K.’s gross sexual misconduct, which is completely indefensible, and which inevitably resulted in the cancellation of his new film, Exhibit A if This Ever Goes to Trial.” 
 
 At least five then up-and-coming female comedians have accused C.K. of extreme sexual harassment—trapping them in a room and forcing them to watch him masturbate. The deeply disturbing (yet widely whispered) revelations resulted in FX, HBO, and Netflix severing professional ties with the comic, and The Orchard canceling the release of his upcoming film/provocation, I Love You, Daddy. 
 
 “Now, as for the president,” Oliver continued, “he’s been overseas all week, which should have been relaxing for the rest of us—until this happened last night.” 
 
 Oliver then threw to a tweet from @realDonaldTrump, the online alias of the biggest troll in Twitterville: the 45th president of the United States. 
 
 Yes, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un calling President Trump “old” apparently got under his spray-tanned skin. After all, he once told Dr. Oz, “I feel the same age as [Tom Brady],” adding that he sees a 35-year-old when he looks in the mirror (Brady is an in-shape 40, Trump is 71 and fluctuates between three and four chins). 
 
 “This would be the stupidest possible reason for all of us to die,” Oliver remarked of the Lil’ Kim tweet. “I’m serious: If the entire country simultaneously tripped while putting on its underwear and fell face-forward into the toilet, got stuck, and drowned, it would be considerably less stupid than if that tweet caused a nuclear apocalypse.” 
 
 Later on in the program, Oliver sped through a recap of Trump’s chaotic first year in the White House, concluding: “Trump’s presidency is like one of his handshakes: It pulls you in whether you like it or not.” ||||| John Oliver spent the bulk of Sunday’s season finale of Last Week Tonight skewering President Donald Trump, but the late-night host did find time to score one blow against disgraced comedian Louis C.K. 
 
 During the opening of Last Week Tonight, Oliver ran through the past week of news, calling out the New York Times exposé on Louis C.K.’s sexual misconduct, which included stories from five women who alleged the Louie creator masturbated in front of them (either in person or on the phone). Louis C.K. later confirmed the “stories are true” in a statement. 
 
 Said Oliver on Sunday, “The New York Times reporting Louis C.K.’s gross sexual misconduct, which is completely indefensible, and which inevitably resulted in the cancellation of his new film, Exhibit A if This Ever Goes to Trial.” 
 
 In reality, Louis C.K.’s new film, I Love You, Daddy, was pulled from the release calendar by its distributor. The movie — a black-and-white homage to Woody Allen films starring Louis C.K. as a famous television producer — includes a scene where an actor, played by Charlie Day, vigorously pantomimes masturbating in front of a female colleague. 
 
 Following the New York Times report, FX dumped Louis C.K. from all its shows, Netflix canceled an upcoming stand-up special featuring the comic, and HBO yanked all of Louis C.K.’s specials from its library. Louis C.K. was also fired as a voice actor on The Secret Life of Pets 2. 
 
 “These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them,” Louis C.K. said in a statement last week after the Times story broke. “The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly. I have been remorseful of my actions. And I’ve tried to learn from them. And run from them. Now I’m aware of the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position.” 
 
 In addition to Oliver, other late-night hosts and shows have taken on the Louis C.K. story — including Saturday Night Live, Stephen Colbert, and Trevor Noah. ||||| Tweet with a location 
 
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 Trump has been overseas all week which should have been relaxing for the rest of us, except Trump on Saturday night tweeted this: 
 
 Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2017 
 
 “This would be the stupidest possible reason for all of us to die,” Oliver described. 
 
 Oliver walked us down some of Trump’s more memorable terrible moments of the past year, including creepily telling the French president’s wife she is in good shape, the State Department plugging one of his golf resorts on its official website, shoving aside the president of Montenegro at a NATO event because Trump saw a camera, and the speech in which he explained a new mine is taking out “clean coal meaning they’re taking out coal and they’re going to clean it.” 
 
 Even more concerning than the daily Trump-induced chaos are the norms his presidency has violated. Not the obvious ones, like never releasing his tax returns, or having his own daughter and son-in-law “work” in the White House. 
 
 The more lasting damage comes from the three techniques Trump uses to insulate himself from criticism: 
 
 Delegitimizing the media. This has been Trump’s thing for years, “the difference now is he is crying fake news as president,” and even tried to take credit for the term in an interview with Mike Huckabee. 
 
 “Whataboutism.” Aka, changing the subject to someone else’s perceived wrongdoing. It’s an old Soviet propaganda tool, Oliver said, lifting from a New York Times report, and it’s dangerous because it implies all actions, regardless of context, share a moral equivalency. It’s the depressingly effective tool Trump used in arguing about the neo-Nazi who mowed down a protester in Charlottesville, Virginia. 
 
 Trolling. Trump is America’s first Troll President, Oliver said. Trump, way back in 2013, retweeted a claim he was “the most superior troll on the whole of twitter” calling it “a great compliment.” 
 
 Which, Oliver noted, it is not. “Because some time when you do something that makes a lot of people mad it’s because – and bear with me — you’re a d*ck.” 
 
 Trolling is not without political value, Oliver acknowledged, because many Trump supporters think he’s scored a major win when he does it. 
 
 It’s a level of discourse now being used by various Republican politicians, Oliver revealed in video clips, including, most recently, Roy Moore after a WaPo piece alleging the Senate candidate tried to initiate a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old when he was in his 30’s. 
 
 Tuesday election results must not make Trump opponents complacent, Oliver warned, calling it no guarantee the midterm elections will turn out same. Which is why, though his show is going on hiatus, he will continue to buy ad time on Fox & Friends in the Washington D.C. market, to air more Catheter Cowboy ads directed at Trump, who gets his morning briefing from the Fox News Channel program. 
 
 The first spot features Catheter Cowboy explaining to Trump that “clean coal” is a marketing term the coal industry came up with to describe a process that has had limited results at best. Also, Frederick Douglass is dead. 
 
 In other ads, Catheter Cowboy will explain to Trump that the U.S. Virgin Islands has a governor, not a president. In another ad, he will tell Trump, “just because Jared Kushner is smarter than you are does not mean he’s smart.” 
 
 Oliver wound up the show reminding viewers he bought five wax POTUS’s during the season, which set up its wrap: A Tom Hanks trailer, in which he marches purposefully into the commander-in-chief’s chambers, to tell him the world is in so much trouble “we need all of you,” so that all five Wax POTUS’s can make an appearance, and Hanks can say, “Gentlemen, let’s go wax these bastards.”
– John Oliver outlined "the stupidest possible reason for all of us to die" in the season finale of Last Week Tonight on Sunday, and it involves a specific tweet by President Trump. "I'm serious: If the entire country simultaneously tripped while putting on its underwear and fell face-forward into the toilet, got stuck, and drowned, it would be considerably less stupid than if that tweet caused a nuclear apocalypse," Oliver said of Trump's post, which alluded to Kim Jong Un being "short and fat," per the Daily Beast. That was just the kickoff for Oliver's parade through what Deadline describes as "Trump's more memorable terrible moments of the past year" and his violation of norms, with Oliver pointing out the president's delegitimizing of the media, his wielding of the "depressingly effective tool" of "whataboutism," and his self-proclaimed "superior" trolling. Which Oliver doesn't agree with, "because sometimes, when you do something that makes a lot of people mad it's because—and bear with me here—you're a d**k." The HBO host also took on the allegations against Louis CK with a single joke, per Entertainment Weekly. "The New York Times [reported on] Louis CK's gross sexual misconduct, conduct which is completely indefensible, and which inevitably resulted in the cancellation of his new film, Exhibit A If This Ever Goes to Trial," he noted (the film contains a scene with a character pretending to masturbate in front of a female co-worker, which is what Louis CK is accused of doing in real life). Oliver also welcomed a "surprise" guest: Tom Hanks, who converses in a fake trailer about the "fate of humanity" with wax figures of five former US presidents. "Gentleman, let's go wax these bastards," Hanks solemnly proclaims about their mission.