Before heading off on a month-long hiatus, John Oliver cut to the chase on this weekend’s episode of Last Week Tonight, with a direct message to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. With current polls pointing to a possible loss in November for the mogul, Oliver suggested he, well, “drop out.”“Simply drop out and tell America this entire candidacy was a stunt — a satire designed to expose the flaws in the system,” Oliver said. “‘I openly ran on a platform of impossibly ignorant proposals steeped in racial bigotry and nobody stopped me. What the f—k was that about?’“That would be one of the most powerful political speeches of all time. If you drop out in order to teach America a lesson, you would not be a loser.

Source: National Post August 22, 2016 13:52 UTC