John Oliver once predicted the Chicago Cubs would never win the World Series and begged Donald Trump to run for president. Now he’s having comic remorse.
“But there was such a time. Because as you may remember, three years ago I guest-hosted ‘The Daily Show,’ and well, there is something you should see.”
He showed a 2013 clip from “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central in which he said of a Trump GOP bid: “Do it. Do it. I will personally write you a campaign check now, on behalf of this country, which does not want you to be president, but which badly wants you to run.”
Oliver now says: “In my defense, I have no defense for that and was hoping to think of one before finishing this sentence, and oh s—, it’s over.”