“Now, what’s revealing there isn’t his mistaken belief that President Obama is a Muslim,” said Oliver. The economy is about numbers, feelings are supposed to be irrelevant.”He then went on to call Trump’s speech when accepting the Republican nomination “a symphony of bile and race-baiting. On Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver called the Republican National Convention the “most apocalyptic thing” to ever happen to Cleveland, and went on to take apart the event’s speeches, one by one. First up: Antonio Sabato, Jr. (described by Oliver as “both alive and an idiot”), who opted to run with his beliefs, rather than, well, facts, declaring during his speech that President Barack Obama is a Muslim when, in reality, he is a Christian. “What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true, because if anything, that was the theme of the Republican Convention this week.”Assessing convention speakers who repeatedly said they did not feel “safe” and believe the economy is “stuck,” Oliver said, “What do you mean it feels stuck?

Source: National Post July 25, 2016 15:45 UTC