Donald Trump’s original family name — Drumpf — isn’t news. @RealDonalDrumpf has been tweeting since May 2013. But John Oliver made big hay of it Sunday.
“I’m asking America to #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain,” he said, while also rolling out a Google Chrome extension that turns Trump to Drumpf any time his name shows up. (A red ballcap with that slogan is being sold for $17.50.)
As The Washington Post noted:
“Oliver revived many popular criticisms of Trump. The candidate has no clear policy positions and overstates his net worth, Oliver alleged; he uses his wealth to promote himself as a credible candidate, though wealth does not equal political greatness; his campaign is not self-funded, despite his claims; he is racist. Yet, Oliver said, Trump can no longer be dismissed.”
“Oliver offered a novel strategy for those who wish to battle Trump: refer to the candidate by ‘Drumpf,’ what one biographer said the Trump family name was before it ‘evolved over the centuries.’ Indeed, Gwenda Blair, the author of ‘The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire’ (2000), thought it was “fortunate” that ‘Drumpf’ had become “Trump.”
Said Oliver: “Drumpf is much less magical. It’s the sound produced when a morbidly obese pigeon flies into the window of a foreclosed Old Navy” store. “It’s the sound of a bottle of store-brand root beer falling off the shelf of a mini-mart.”
Social media named Oliver their favorite political commentator.
http://www.hbo.com/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver
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