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Back from Easter break, Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver spent the majority of his program going in on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s reckless Department of Health & Human Services cuts, anti-vaccine stance and “dehumanizing” feedback about autistic folks.
“This is a man who is clearly in way over his worm-riddled head,” Oliver mentioned. “He doesn’t know what he’s doing, he doesn’t know who he’s fired, he doesn’t even know how many diabetic people there are in China. And if that wasn’t bad enough, he’s currently spreading dangerous nonsense and gutting life-saving research, all while bringing in a basement quack [David Geier]. RFK in this job is dangerous.”
Speaking to the haphazard cuts of HHS made by RFK — which have seemingly adopted DOGE’s erratic and irrational downsizing, and which physicians, researchers and different consultants have warned will end in unnecessary deaths — Oliver quipped, “The rules for restructuring HHS should be the same as the ones for a bris. It is crucially important to know exactly what you are cutting. Speed is just not the most important thing.”
Throughout the night, Oliver additionally ridiculed RFK’s “rabid” conspiracy theories and unusual habits, referencing an article by The Daily Beast, which reported the division head went barefoot down an airplane aisle, together with its rest room.
“I know, I literally just said 9/11 out loud [which RFK won’t “take sides” on], however RFK dragging his urine-soaked free-range piggies by means of first-class is actually the worst factor to ever occur in American airspace,” Oliver joked.
Oliver additionally known as BS on a few of RFK’s extensively cited statistics, together with one by which he falsely claimed that half of the inhabitants of China has diabetes. The host remarked that it was extra embarrassing to fact-check this declare than earlier inquiries, similar to VP JD Vance’s much-memed intercourse with a sofa debacle.
“One response from a doctor called Kennedy’s statement ‘ludicrous,’ adding ‘these stats might be related to the worm in his brain,’” he mentioned.
Oliver additionally delved into RFK’s virulent anti-vaccine stance and disparaging feedback about folks with autism, shining mild on the spreading measles epidemic (which has led to the primary pediatric measles dying in 22 years), in addition to cases of toddler whooping cough deaths and uncertainty surrounding the hen flu.
The comic likened the division’s gutting to “finding out what each of your organs does as someone removes them one by one,” ending emphatically that Kennedy “needs to go and by impeachment, if necessary.”