John Oliver can't comprehend 'sociopathic' Donald Trump's response to family of fallen soldier


The Democratic National Convention gave John Oliver plenty of fodder, from Tim Kaine (aka The Human Sweater Vest, aka Portrait of the Vice President That Came With the Frame) and his bad Donald Trump impression to Vice President Joe Biden yelling like a SoulCycle instructor, but he saved his ire for something that happened after it was all over.
During the convention, Khizr Khan, whose son, Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004, asked Trump if he had ever read the Constitution, then pulled out his own copy from his jacket. "That is an American founding document being inspirationally used as a middle finger," Oliver said. "I did not know that was technically possible." Trump has since responded several times, asking why Khan's wife didn't say anything while onstage (she told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell she can't look at photos of her son without crying, and was standing directly in front of a large picture of him), and questioned if Khan actually wrote his speech or if it came from Hillary Clinton's speechwriters.
Clearly livid, Oliver called Trump a few choice words (as can be heard in the video below), and declared, "We may be on the brink of electing such a damaged, sociopathic narcissistic that the simple presidential duty of comforting the families of fallen soldiers may actually be beyond his capabilities and I genuinely did not think that was a part of the job someone could be bad at." Oliver did end on a high note, with a montage of the weirdest phrases uttered during the convention, including a juxtaposition of macroeconomics and macaroni and cheese. Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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