John Oliver schools Trump campaign on Venn diagrams over failure to explain 'Kamabla' nickname for Harris
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: As the Trump campaign continues its attempts to discredit Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, John Oliver finds himself puzzled by a new nickname.
According to Deadline, on the latest episode of 'Last Week Tonight', Oliver voiced his confusion over Trump’s social media posts referring to Harris as “Kamabla,” and the subsequent Venn diagram created by Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung with the terms “Kama” and “bla" to explain the baffling nickname.
John Oliver slams Trump campaign’s Venn diagram
John Oliver criticized the diagram, noting that it “not only failed to explain anything, it’s not how Venn diagrams work! Not to be a total chart bitch, but I am what I am.” He then took the opportunity to clarify the purpose of a Venn diagram, offering several examples for illustration.
“For instance, a Venn diagram could feature one circle with dolphins and another with sharks overlapping with the shared descriptor, ‘lives in the ocean,’” he explained.
John Oliver mocks Trump campaign's diagram with absurd comparisons
He continued, “Or you could have a circle with me and another with Big Bird. With the overlap being, ‘squawks educational lessons on television.’”
Oliver further jested, “Or you can have a circle with Jenna Ortega and one with Pepé Le Pew, with the intersection, ‘can’t say where they were on 9/11.’ Does it matter that one’s fictional and one wasn’t born yet? I can’t answer that, I’m just telling you what the diagram logically highlights.”
Oliver concluded, “My point is, you can have lots of fun with charts, but this” - referring to Cheung’s diagram, “This right here is f**king nothing.”
Oliver slams GOP attacks on Harris and Walz
According to Daily Beast, Oliver also took aim at other GOP attacks on Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. He found Trump’s “Kamabla” nickname to be “immediately confusing” and dismissed the outrage over accusations that Walz altered the Minnesotan state flag to resemble a Somali flag as irrelevant and a stretch.
Oliver noted, “What are you talking about? Have you seen flags? They’re all some combination of colors, stars, and in the case of Sicily, a three-legged monster with a head for a vagina. That’s really more of a ‘Sicily’s gonna Sicily’ situation.”
He clarified that the flag change was primarily due to objections over the depiction of a Native American, and Walz wasn’t the one pushing for the change but was simply governor at the time.
Oliver debunks JD Vance’s 'stolen valor' claim against Walz
In response to JD Vance’s claim that Walz had committed “stolen valor” by supposedly abandoning his crew before their deployment to Iraq, Oliver corrected the record.
“Walz retired in May of 2005. His unit wasn’t ordered to mobilize until July of that year and didn’t deploy to Iraq until 2006. Even the hard-right Wall Street Journal editorial board said the charges leveled so far about his military service look like thin gruel.”
Oliver concluded that these baseless attacks reveal the Trump campaign’s lack of substantive criticism. “It does seem telling that so much of their attack strategy seems to boil down to a nonsense word and false accusations of stolen valor,” he said.
“Two desperate smear attempts with one thing in common: they reveal the Trump campaign has currently got absolutely nothing.”
