During his opening monologue on tonight’s installment of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver addressed the spiraling claims by Donald Trump‘s administration regarding the Iran War, which has continued to drag on despite assurances it would entail a decisive military operation last month.
After cuing a video of U.S. Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth‘s recent address to the American public, in which he defended “Operation Epic Fury,” the late-night host quipped: “‘Epic Fury is different?’ Maybe. It’s definitely the stupidest name I’ve ever heard. It sounds like a VHS tape Hegseth put out of himself doing karate in a garage. It sounds like the name of an energy drink marketed to divorced monster truck fans containing so much caffeine it makes you shit your pants while having a heart attack. It doesn’t exactly convey care and precision.”
Prior to the weekend, Trump also reiterated that he believes the
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