After multiple warnings from the president’s opponents and months of chaos from Trump’s second administration, John Oliver believes the moment has finally arrived.
“When everyone was warning about a slippery slope to authoritarianism under Trump, this is it,” Oliver declared in his Sunday monologue on Last Week Tonight. “Because masked government agents grabbing people off the streets and deporting them without due process is authoritarianism. Sending in the military to crack down on protests against those actions is authoritarianism.”
Last week’s escalation by Trump followed protests against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids across Los Angeles. Last Tuesday, Trump told Army soldiers during an address at Fort Bragg that he had to deploy “thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of marines to protect federal law enforcement from the attacks of a vicious and violent mob — and some of the radical left.” Trump claimed Los Angeles would be “burning” if not for him.
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