‘Last Week Tonight’ Drags RFK Jr., HHS Cuts & His “Dehumanizing” Comments About Autistic People: “In Way Over His Worm-Riddled Head”

Back from Easter break, Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver spent the majority of his program going in on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s reckless Department of Health & Human Services cuts, anti-vaccine stance and “dehumanizing” comments about autistic people. “This is a man who is clearly in way over his worm-riddled head,” Oliver said. “He doesn’t know what he’s doing, he doesn’t know who he’s fired, he doesn’t even know how many diabetic people there are in China. And if that wasn’t bad enough, he’s currently spreading dangerous nonsense and gutting life-saving research, all while bringing in a basement quack [David Geier]. “One response from a doctor called Kennedy’s statement ‘ludicrous,’ adding ‘these stats might be related to the worm in his brain,'” he said.