Donald Trump made tackling the ongoing problem — 140 people die every day from opioid abuse — one of his central campaign promises.
“It’s really, really easy not to take ‘em,” Trump said during a recent speech on opioids.
The host then said, while it’s good Trump has been paying attention to the opioid crisis “attention is pretty much all he’s giving it.”
While John Oliver may have opened the weekend’s episode of Last Week Tonight poking fun at the upcoming Mueller revelations, the host went on to discuss a widely controversial topic: America’s opioid crisis.