Again from Easter break, Final Week Tonight‘s John Oliver spent the vast majority of his program entering into on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s reckless Division of Well being & Human Companies cuts, anti-vaccine stance and “dehumanizing” feedback about autistic individuals.
“It is a man who’s clearly in means over his worm-riddled head,” Oliver mentioned. “He doesn’t know what he’s doing, he doesn’t know who he’s fired, he doesn’t even know what number of diabetic individuals there are in China. And if that wasn’t dangerous sufficient, he’s at the moment spreading harmful nonsense and gutting life-saving analysis, all whereas bringing in a basement quack [David Geier]. RFK on this job is harmful.”
Chatting with the haphazard cuts of HHS made by RFK — which have seemingly adopted DOGE’s erratic and irrational downsizing, and which physicians, researchers and different consultants have warned will end in unnecessary deaths — Oliver quipped, “The foundations for restructuring HHS needs to be the identical as those for a bris. It’s crucially essential to know precisely what you’re reducing. Pace is simply not an important factor.”
All through the night, Oliver additionally ridiculed RFK’s “rabid” conspiracy theories and unusual habits, referencing an article by The Day by day Beast, which reported the division head went barefoot down an airplane aisle, together with its rest room.
“I do know, I actually simply mentioned 9/11 out loud [which RFK won’t “take sides” on], however RFK dragging his urine-soaked free-range piggies by way of top quality is actually the worst factor to ever occur in American airspace,” Oliver joked.
Oliver additionally known as BS on a few of RFK’s extensively cited statistics, together with one through which he falsely claimed that half of the inhabitants of China has diabetes. The host remarked that it was extra embarrassing to fact-check this declare than earlier inquiries, reminiscent of VP JD Vance’s much-memed intercourse with a sofa debacle.
“One response from a physician known as Kennedy’s assertion ‘ludicrous,’ including ‘these stats could be associated to the worm in his mind,’” he mentioned.
Oliver additionally delved into RFK’s virulent anti-vaccine stance and disparaging feedback about individuals with autism, shining mild on the spreading measles epidemic (which has led to the primary pediatric measles loss of life in 22 years), in addition to situations of toddler whooping cough deaths and uncertainty surrounding the fowl flu.
The comic likened the division’s gutting to “discovering out what every of your organs does as somebody removes them one after the other,” ending emphatically that Kennedy “must go and by impeachment, if essential.”
