John Oliver jokes about Trump’s refusal to wear a face mask: ‘He’s never used protection’

Comedian criticises the president for his ‘inability to manage the coronavirus’

John Oliver has criticised Donald Trump‘s handling of the coronavirus crisis, focusing on the US president’s refusal to wear a protective face mask.

Speaking on his HBO comedy series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the British-American comic quipped: “For all of Trump’s ideological wavering over the years, one thing has remained consistent: he’s never used protection – and he’s never not been an a***hole about it afterwards.”

Oliver, who has long been an outspoken critic of Trump, condemned the president’s “inability to manage the coronavirus”, as well as his description of US citizens as “warriors”.

“We don’t have to be warriors and to the extent that we are, we don’t have to go into a battle unarmed,” Oliver said. “You can’t just call everyone warriors and make their deaths not count.

“This is where we are right now: our wartime president has decided the only way to win this war is to draft every one of us, hide our battle plans and hope that we are brave enough not to notice that we have already surrendered.”

Last week, Trump was filmed visiting a factory while the James Bond title song ”Live and Let Die” played in the background.

Oliver referenced the clip in another put-down, saying: “His plan to steer us through this pandemic is for him to live while letting a lot of us die.”