According to Oliver, Johnson’s playbook differs from Trump’s in one key way
are obvious and plentiful: Both are bumbling dudes with weird hair, both have said bigoted things about groups they hope to vilify; and both have visions for their respective nations that many find horrifying. On Sunday nightnoted that similarity during a long take dedicated to explaining the eccentric prime minister.
Johnson, Oliver argued, frames himself as “a lovable mess weathering adversity with humor and good cheer. But the truth is there may be a great deal more calculation behind that image than appears.” Oliver cited, for instance, reports that Johnson deliberately musses his own hair ahead of televised interviews—a move one certainly can’t imagine Donald Trump ever employing.
“It would be bad enough if Boris were just a liar,” Oliver continued. “But he’s also been more than willing to tap into outright bigotry to get ahead.” For example, Oliver said, Johnson has characterized immigrants as people who want to “leach off the state,” referred to “piccaninnies,” described people in the Congo as having “watermelon smiles,” called gay men “tank-topped bumboys,” and compared women in burqas to “letterboxes” and “bank robbers.
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