With his show on a break, John Oliver hasn’t been able to weigh in on President Trump in the past few months. But that’s about to change.

In the premiere of his fourth season, the host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” announced Sunday night that he had made TV ads aimed at educating the president — and that those ads would air Monday morning on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.

The announcement came after Oliver spent the better part of his show skewering Trump, denouncing his statements as lies, and describing the president’s news sources as “frighteningly unreliable.”

“There is one small way we wanted to try and sneak some useful facts into his media diet,” Oliver said in the show that aired Sunday night. “As we now know, he watches morning cable news for information. So we’ve created a series of commercials in an attempt to bring him up to speed on information he may lack.”

Oliver said the commercials would air between 8:30 and 9 a.m. during MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” CNN’s “New Day,” and Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” in the Washington, D.C., market.


“We’re going to run them on shows we know he watches every day,” Oliver said.

One of the commercials Oliver said would run shows a man in a Stetson-esque cowboy hat, dropping some tidbits matter-of-factly, such as: “It might seem like a show of strength to kill the families of terrorists, but according to the Geneva Conventions, it’s actually a war crime”; “Not all black people live in the inner cities, and not all people in the inner cities are black.”

However, the show also managed to mix in some humor, including the narrator explaining to Trump the difference between an appetizer and entree fork, and identifying one of his lesser-talked about daughters, Tiffany.


“Tiffany,” the man said, holding up a photo of Tiffany Trump. “Tiff-a-ny. Tiffany.”

Oliver, also known for spurring hashtags that go wild on social media, created another one Sunday while talking about Trump’s perception of reality.

“Republicans should badly want our sense of objective reality to remain intact just in case the Democrats ever find their own appealing reality star to win back the White House — RuPaul, for instance,” Oliver said. “Make America fierce again, hashtag, #makeamericafierceagain.”

Despite the humor, Oliver had a serious message to deliver: That Americans should be cautious of taking Trump’s statements as facts, and stressed the importance of weeding out “fake” news from fact-checked stories.

“Trump was telling the truth about his solutions to the problems he was lying about, and he is now making real policy based on fake facts,” Oliver said.