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John Oliver made his long-awaited return to TV on Sunday night with the season four premiere of Last Week Tonight, explaining all the ways President Donald Trump has proved himself to be a “pathological liar” with “a well-documented 40-year history of bullshit,” from his beliefs on voter fraud to the crime rate.

“Since taking office around 412 years ago, Trump has made it clear that reality is not important to him,” he said. “Trump’s relationship with the truth is going to be of profound importance going forward because any policy discussion has to begin with a shared sense of reality and Trump’s reality can change within a single sentence.”

Referencing the time when Trump claimed his inauguration had been rain-free, then cutting to video of this not being true, Oliver said, “We have a president capable of standing in the rain and saying it was a sunny day.”

Oliver went on to talk about the media’s reaction to Trump’s election campaign and his policy platform. “It was worth taking him seriously,” he said. “Trump was telling the truth about the solutions to the problems he was lying about and he is now making real policy based on fake facts.”

But if Trump sounds familiar at all, Oliver said, it’s because he seems to be listening to Fox News more than his team. “You would hope that as president, he would now be getting information from primary sources and briefings but Trump still watches a phenomenal amount of cable news,” he said. “His tweets frequently echo things that just aired on TV.”