Despite the stocks for Truth Social opening well above what was expected, considerably increasing his net worth, Donald Trump is still begging his followers for money. And John Oliver was particularly amused by the legally troubled ex-president’s latest plea, which the HBO host compared to a hostage video.
On Tuesday, Trump posted a video to YouTube — in which he stood in front of a portrait of what appears to be a stereotypical pilgrim surrounded by dead trees — asking for people to send him any amount of money, even as small as five or ten dollars.
“That is a man who talks nonstop about how he’s one of the richest men on Earth, begging strangers for money in a hostage video that looks like it was filmed in a house haunted by the world’s tackiest ghosts,” Oliver sniped as the clip ended.