John Oliver Gets Emotional, Pleads With His Viewers to Reject Trump: ‘We Wouldn’t Have to Deal With HIM Anymore’

In his last episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight before Election Day, host John Oliver made an emphatic appeal to his viewers to elect Vice President Kamala Harris so former President Donald Trump can go back to being an “annoyance” rather than “an active threat.”

At around the 12:20 mark, Oliver, in a monologue that caused him to become emotional at times, made the case for Harris, even if there were points of disagreement. Citing voters who disagreed with Harris on the Israel-Hamas War but planned to vote for her, Oliver said elections made it possible for people to “get to choose who you’d prefer to be pushing for the next four years and where you’ll be pushing them from.” He continued:

Look, I love this country. I’m an immigrant. I chose to be here. In the words of the late Lee Greenwood, I’m proud to be an American. And I’d argue there is nothing more American than having a healthy, adversarial relationship with those in power, even if you voted for them.

That led Oliver to the subject of Trump, and why voting for Harris could mean the end of the ex-president’s political career:

If it helps at all, there’s one final thing I’m going to be genuinely excited for on Tuesday. And that is, if Donald Trump loses this election, he’s basically finished. I know he will put us through hell before he left the stage, but when the dust settled, he’d have lost two elections in a row and would be campaigning as an 82-year-old next time. I think he’d be done.

And doesn’t that sound great? And I know, the problems that he’s a symptom of would of course remain, but we wouldn’t have to deal with him anymore. Wouldn’t it be great to live in a world where he’s no longer an active threat, just an annoyance? When this photo could just be funny rather than having geopolitical implications? Where he can yell about ice cream machines and complain about windmills and we all have the option of just not giving a shit about any of it at all? I want so badly to live in that world. And I hope everyone does everything in their power in the next 48 hours to make that world possible.

Watch the full segment via LastWeekTonight on YouTube.