{"id":2117726,"date":"2025-10-27T05:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2117726"},"modified":"2025-10-27T05:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:49:14","slug":"john-oliver-on-trumps-white-house-demolition-a-metaphor-that-is-if-anything-too-on-the-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-oliver-on-trumps-white-house-demolition-a-metaphor-that-is-if-anything-too-on-the-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver on Trump\u2019s White House Demolition: \u201cA Metaphor That Is, if Anything, Too on the Nose\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1056659\/\">John Oliver<\/a> took aim at \u2014 who else? \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874339\/\">President Trump<\/a> in the opening segment of Sunday\u2019s Last Week Tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The host started out by showing images of the White House demolition project that Trump has ordered on the East Wing so that he can construct a $250 million ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose images are distressing, especially when you know it\u2019s all to build a giant ballroom in a style best described as \u2018Med Spa Versailles,&#8217;\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm16304674\/\">Oliver<\/a> quipped. \u201cAnd yet, the demolition of the White House, a metaphor that, if anything, is too on the nose, was just the tip of Trump\u2019s iceberg this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oliver then showed a news report about Trump\u2019s push to get paid $230 million from the Justice Department as compensation for federal investigations into his behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should say, Trump has said he\u2019d donate any settlement to, in his words, \u2018charity or something,&#8217;\u201d Oliver noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver took aim at \u2014 who else? \u2014 President Trump in the opening segment of Sunday\u2019s Last Week Tonight. The host started out by showing images of the White House demolition project that Trump has ordered on the East Wing so that he can construct a $250 million ballroom. \u201cThose images are distressing, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2117727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2117726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/John-Oliver-on-Trumps-White-House-Demolition-A-Metaphor-That.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117728,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117726\/revisions\/2117728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2117727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}