John Oliver said Sunday that Donald Trump should withdraw from the 2016 presidential race and confess his entire campaign was a "satire designed to expose the flaws in the system."
Oliver, host of HBO's "Last Week Tonight" said the Republican presidential nominee has come to a "fork in the road" and to continue running — and then losing — would deeply hurt the lucrative Trump brand.
"If you keep going, you're going to spend the next 11 weeks ramping up hatred in speeches, injecting poison into the American bloodstream that will take generations to remove, and denying the country the contest of ideas that a presidential campaign should actually be," Oliver said.
"And after that, you're either going to win or you're going to lose, and I think both of those scenarios end pretty badly for you. Which is why, Mr. Trump ... I would like to propose to you a third option.
"That is, drop out. Simply drop out, and tell America this entire candidacy was a stunt. A satire designed to expose the flaws in the system."
© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.