The Last Week Tonight host spoke about the president’s support of Brett Kavanaugh and the Republican party’s dirty tactics

John Oliver took aim at Donald Trump and his behaviour in the lead-up to Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

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On his HBO show Last Week Tonight, the British comic called the president a “mentally unstable man with nuclear weapons” before playing footage of him with toilet paper stuck to his shoe.

“At this point no one would be remotely shocked if he boarded Air Force One with an entire toilet stuck to his shoe,” he joked.

Oliver then referred to the rushed FBI investigation into disgraced supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as “wildly inaccurate” before criticising the Republican party for their “utterly shameless commitment to bad faith arguments” as they defended him against allegations of sexual misconduct.

A number of key party members also helped to push the unsubstantiated suggestion that protesters were being paid to cause unrest.

“People would pay to yell at Jeff Flake in an elevator,” Oliver countered. “If Disney World has a ride called Yell at Jeff Flake in an Elevator, the line would be longer than Space fucking Mountain.”

He also criticised Susan Collins for her “spectacular bad-faith bullshit” and her claim that dark money was being used against Kavanaugh. He pointed out that the vast majority of funds used have actually been in support of his nomination.

“This entire process wasn’t about principle. It was just about getting what you want no matter how you have to do it or what damage it does to Dr Ford, to other survivors or to our fundamental trust in the supreme court,” he said. “It was borderline pathological.”

Oliver also played footage of Trump shaming Al Franken for resigning over allegations of sexual harassment. “Trump has gotten away with so much in his life for so long that he mocks the very idea of responsibility,” he said.

He continued by stressing the importance of coming out to vote in the midterms. “It is the only chance that we have to look at some of these people straight in the eye and say: ‘Goodbye’,” he said.