John Oliver isn't optimistic about the future of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and he's proposing a solution.

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"Drop out. Simply drop out and tell America this entire candidacy was a stunt. A satire designed to expose the flaws in the system," Oliver implored Sunday on his HBO show, "Last Week Tonight."

It's not such a radical idea, he insisted, addressing Trump directly on his show.

"You're either going to win, or you're going to lose, and I think both those scenarios end pretty badly for you," Oliver said.

"Although your campaign was the political equivalent of a bigoted clown's blazing funeral pyre, you have accidentally made upwards of four good points during this campaign," he said, pointing to criticisms Trump has made of the campaign finance system, the media, and party politics.


"If you dropped out in order to teach America a lesson, you would not be a loser, you would be a legend," said Oliver.

The comedian also noted that winning the election would be "even worse for [Trump], because then he actually has to run the country."

"That means living in government housing, conversing with fully-clothed women, and traveling in a plane that doesn't even have his name on it," Oliver quipped. "Just this week, he tried to seem more presidential by apologizing, and distributing disaster relief, and he looked miserable. And that's pretty much all being president is."

This isn't the first time Oliver has skewered Trump. Earlier this month, the comedian called the GOP nominee a "damaged, sociopathic narcissist" and a "self-serving half-man." Oliver's comments came after Trump's remarks about the parents of a US Muslim soldier who was killed in 2004.