At the top of his show Sunday evening, John Oliver addressed the mass shooting in Atlanta this week in which eight people were killed, six of whom were Asian Americans.
Oliver examined the recent spike in anti-Asian racism and hate crimes, slamming Donald Trump for spending a full year using terms like “Wuhan virus” and “kung flu” instead of COVID-19, and he also had some choice words for conservative pundits like The View’s Meghan McCain who gave the former president a pass. “Our long, ugly history of anti-Asian racism and the fact that it often peaks during times of crisis is the exact reason why, just last year, many were loudly warning that Trump calling COVID names like the ‘China virus’ was likely to lead to a rise in violence