John Oliver on Trump tariffs: ‘World’s trust in America has been shattered’

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John Oliver summed up a chaotic week for the US economy in what he called “an emotional rollercoaster” after Donald Trump’s tariff drama. The Last Week Tonight host devoted the episode to the back-and-forth decision-making which went from the president holding up the “single dumbest chart in human history” to the Dow plummeting 4,000 points in two days. He initially held firm despite widespread backlash, claiming: “I know what the hell I’m doing” and stating that he had a lot of people sucking up to him afterwards and being nice. Oliver said it was comparable to what would happen if...