Donald Trump and Comedian John Oliver Engage in War of Words Over TV Invitation
Never one to just “let things die,” Donald Trump says he didn’t have time to appear on John Oliver’s “very boring and low rated show,” but Oliver now claims he never invited the GOP candidate onto his show, “Last Week Tonight.”
The feud began last weekend when Trump tweeted that Oliver’s staff had invited him onto “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” but he turned it down, saying, “NO THANKS. Waste of time & energy!”
“Well, I didn’t know much about him,” Trump told Colin Cowherd’s “The Herd” on Monday. “All of a sudden I see people saying that John Oliver … asked me to be on the show four or five times. I don’t even hardly know who he was. I wouldn’t know what he looks like, but he asked me to be on the show.
“I said no because I can’t—not because of disrespect for him, but because I have a lot of things that are going on right now. So, I couldn’t do the show, and then all of a sudden he said I would never have Trump on the show. I said, ‘Wasn’t that the guy who really wanted me badly on the show.’ A lot of people … would just let it die. I don’t like to let things die.”
However, Oliver has denied that he ever invited Trump onto his program. Oliver told CBS that he doesn’t care about Trump “in any capacity.”
“I haven’t really got anything to say to him,” Oliver said. “He’s said everything he wants to say. He has no internal monologue, that man, so it’s not like you’re going to find some secret nugget that he’s been holding back. He’s an open book and that book doesn’t have many interesting words in it.”
