John Oliver spent the opening segment of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight talking about President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress last week and the Democrats’ response to it.
The HBO host began by noting House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had said before the speech that he wanted to “frame it in gilded gold.”
Oliver’s response: “This isn’t important, but gilding is a technique where you cover things that are not gold in a thin layer of gold to…