HBO’s John Oliver kicked off the 2025 season of Last Week Tonight on Sunday by recapping the first four weeks of Donald Trump’s return to the White House that included a bit on Elon Musk and DOGE. Oliver would label Musk as “one of the worst white guys South Africa has ever produced” while ignoring questions about whether South Africa really needs or deserves aid. On Monday, Oliver joined CBS’s Stephen Colbert on The Late Show to urge people to keep protesting because, according to him, even a message of “[bleep] this [bleep]” can help.
After playing a news clip of a South African woman explaining she was turned away from a clinic due to the funding freeze, Oliver declared, “Yeah, it’s awful. And it’s somehow made even worse by the ‘We value you’ message on the shuttered window, which they should probably now change to ‘We value…
