On this weekend’s episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver focused his sights on Trump and Syria, criticizing the media’s “orgasmic” reaction to the president’s decision to hit a Syrian air base with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Thursday. “Yes, a Syrian airfield this week was bombed by President Trump — two words that when presented in a sentence like this are as downright unsettling as ‘ham smoothie’ or ‘placenta kimono,'” Oliver quipped. “Is there anything Trump is doing now where he didn’t at one point tweet about doing the opposite?”What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and a possible long term conflict? Do we only want to stop Assad using chemical weapons, or are we going to push for regime change? And how will that affect our fight against ISIS?”He wrapped the segment with one big warning: “This is complicated.

Source: National Post April 10, 2017 14:48 UTC