John Oliver weighed in on the conflict in Iran on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight.
“Now despite relentless bombing, the U.S. has been unable to stop Iran striking targets around the region and blocking the Strait of Hormuz,” he recapped on his HBO show. “The news hasn’t been great, so on Thursday, [United States Secretary of War] Pete Hegseth decided to speak to the American public directly.”
Oliver showed a clip of Hegseth talking about the situation in the Middle East at a press conference: “I stand here today speaking to you, the American people. Not through filters, not through reporters, not through cable news spin. … Yes, there are reporters in front of me, but they are not our audience today. It’s you, the good, decent, patriotic American people. You, the hardworking, tax-paying, God-fearing American patriots.”
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