John Oliver slammed Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak and his 'callous indifference' to life on 'Last Week Tonight’
noting that at one point the comedian said, “It now seems that every Trump press conference has to come with an epilogue from an expert clarifying all the things he just got wrong.”bragged to reporters
about an uncle of his who taught at MIT and claimed “maybe I have a natural ability” for understanding the science underpinning the outbreak. Trump has also taken to gloating about the coronavirus statistics in the United States, repeatedly saying last week that the country had just 240 confirmed cases and 11 deaths, far fewer than other countries dealing with outbreaks.
However, as Oliver noted, Trump is so loathe to let those numbers rise that he told reporters he preferred that the 21 infected passengers on the Grand Princess cruise ship off the coast of California not get off the ship . “If Trump had gotten his way, and we had left those people on board indefinitely, the infection would’ve likely spread more,” Oliver said. “I would say it’s impossible to have such a callous indifference to life but he does seem to have a ‘natural ability’ for it.”
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