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| In the final portion of the segment, Oliver urged viewers to refer to Trump as "Drumpf", the ].<ref name=wpost20160229/> Oliver made fun of the name "Drumpf," saying, "It’s the sound produced when a morbidly obese pigeon flies into the window of a foreclosed Old Navy. ... It’s the sound of a bottle of store-brand root beer falling off the shelf in a gas station minimart."<ref name=huffpo/> | In the final portion of the segment, Oliver urged viewers to refer to Trump as "Drumpf", the ].<ref name=wpost20160229/> Oliver made fun of the name "Drumpf," saying, "It’s the sound produced when a morbidly obese pigeon flies into the window of a foreclosed Old Navy. ... It’s the sound of a bottle of store-brand root beer falling off the shelf in a gas station minimart."<ref name=huffpo/> | ||
| Oliver stated that he ]ed the term "Drumpf"; a trademark application was filed with the ] by a company called "Drumpf Industries" that is based in ].<ref name=wipreview>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldipreview.com/news/drumpf-trademark-application-filed-9643|title=‘Drumpf’ trademark application filed |work=]|date=March 3, 2016|accessdate=March 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/primarily-merely-a-drumpf-87972/ |title=Primarily Merely a Drumpf |work=JD Supra |accessdate=6 March 2016}}</ref> and has been used to name a ] called '''DeepDrumpf'''.He released a corresponding ] ] on the ] after the segment, which would change all instances of "Trump" to "Drumpf."<ref name=db20160229/> Oliver created the ] "#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain" during the segment. He also registered the web domain "donaldjdrumpf.com", which sells hats modeled on Trump's "]" hat using the "Drumpf" hashtag.<ref name=huffpo/> By the Friday morning after the segment aired, the Chrome extention had received over 333,800 downloads and 5,800 reviews.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-donald-drumpf-chrome-extension-20160304-story.html |title=Donald Drumpf browser extension installed more than 333K times |last1=Swartz |first1=Tracy |last2= |first2= |date=March 4, 2016 |website= |publisher=] |access-date=March 5, 2016 |quote=}}</ref> | Oliver stated that he ]ed the term "Drumpf"; a trademark application was filed with the ] by a company called "Drumpf Industries" that is based in ].<ref name=wipreview>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldipreview.com/news/drumpf-trademark-application-filed-9643|title=‘Drumpf’ trademark application filed |work=]|date=March 3, 2016|accessdate=March 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/primarily-merely-a-drumpf-87972/ |title=Primarily Merely a Drumpf |work=JD Supra |accessdate=6 March 2016}}</ref> and has been used to name a ] called '''DeepDrumpf'''.He released a corresponding ] ] on the ] after the segment, which would change all instances of "Trump" to "Drumpf."<ref name=db20160229/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cnet.com/news/drumpf-twitterbot-learns-to-imitate-trump-via-deep-learning-algorithm/ |title=Drumpf Twitterbot learns to imitate Trump via deep-learning algorithm |author=Bonnie Burton |date=March 4, 2016 |publisher=CBS Interactive |work=] |accessdate=March 4, 2016 |quote=The Twitterbot DeepDrumpf takes its name from "Last Week Tonight" host and comedian John Oliver who lambasted Trump on his February 28 show}}</ref> Oliver created the ] "#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain" during the segment. He also registered the web domain "donaldjdrumpf.com", which sells hats modeled on Trump's "]" hat using the "Drumpf" hashtag.<ref name=huffpo/> By the Friday morning after the segment aired, the Chrome extention had received over 333,800 downloads and 5,800 reviews.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-donald-drumpf-chrome-extension-20160304-story.html |title=Donald Drumpf browser extension installed more than 333K times |last1=Swartz |first1=Tracy |last2= |first2= |date=March 4, 2016 |website= |publisher=] |access-date=March 5, 2016 |quote=}}</ref> | ||
| == Reception and aftermath == | == Reception and aftermath == | ||
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3rd episode of the 3rd season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
| "Donald Trump" | |
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| Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 3 (segment) |
| Narrated by | John Oliver |
| Presented by | John Oliver |
| Original air date | February 28, 2016 |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| List of episodes | |
"Donald Trump" is the primary topic covered in a segment that aired on February 28, 2016, as part of the third episode of the third season of the HBO series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. During the 22-minute segment, comedian John Oliver discusses American businessman Donald Trump, his 2016 presidential campaign and his business history. During the segment, Oliver urged viewers to "Make Donald Drumpf Again", which popularized the term Donald Drumpf.
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In the 22-minute segment about Donald Trump, delivered by John Oliver during the February 28, 2016, episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Oliver introduces the topic of Trump's presidential campaign by referring to it as "America's back mole," saying, "It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now that it's become frighteningly bigger, it's no longer wise to ignore it."
Then, Oliver criticizes Trump heavily. Oliver called Trump a "serial liar," stating that Trump has lied many times in the past. Oliver mentions Trump had declined an invitation to appear on Last Week Tonight despite never having been invited; that Trump is not self-funding his 2016 presidential campaign, despite Trump saying otherwise; that Trump University misled people, since it was not a university, and despite Trump's statement to the contrary, the related lawsuits are still pending; and that Ivanka Trump, Donald's daughter, had said that her father once portrayed himself as poorer than a homeless person. Oliver said that Trump had failed to repudiate former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. In total, according to Oliver, Trump was lying three-fourths of the time. Oliver called Trump inconsistent in his presidential campaign, saying that "he's been pro choice and pro life; he's been for and against assault weapon bans; in favor of both bringing in Syrian refugees and deporting them out of the country."
Oliver stated that Donald Trump had frequently threatened to file lawsuits against various people, but had never actually filed these lawsuits. Oliver said that Trump was also sensitive about the size of his fingers due to an incident several years prior, in which Trump had been accosted about the size of his fingers. Discussion of Trump's "short fingers" was later covered by other media, but in a Twitter post two days after the segment's original showing, Trump said that he was not aware that people knew about his "short fingers".
Make Donald Drumpf Again
In the final portion of the segment, Oliver urged viewers to refer to Trump as "Drumpf", the Trump family's ancestral name. Oliver made fun of the name "Drumpf," saying, "It’s the sound produced when a morbidly obese pigeon flies into the window of a foreclosed Old Navy. ... It’s the sound of a bottle of store-brand root beer falling off the shelf in a gas station minimart."
Oliver stated that he trademarked the term "Drumpf"; a trademark application was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office by a company called "Drumpf Industries" that is based in Delaware. and has been used to name a recurrent neural network called DeepDrumpf.He released a corresponding Google Chrome browser extension on the Chrome Web Store after the segment, which would change all instances of "Trump" to "Drumpf." Oliver created the hashtag "#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain" during the segment. He also registered the web domain "donaldjdrumpf.com", which sells hats modeled on Trump's "Make America Great Again" hat using the "Drumpf" hashtag. By the Friday morning after the segment aired, the Chrome extention had received over 333,800 downloads and 5,800 reviews.
Reception and aftermath
Immediately after the segment, web searches for "Donald Drumpf," a term mentioned in the segment's final minutes, went viral. By March 1, which was Super Tuesday, "Donald Drumpf" surpassed "Ted Cruz" and "Marco Rubio" (Trump's fellow candidates for the Republican nomination for President) in Google Searches.
Reacting to the segment, The New York Times commented that "Donald Drumpf" was "a funny label", but stated that "some fairness might be in order". It endorsed that the name change occurred in the 1600s, and pointed out that many American entertainers and politicians, including two Presidents and a rival presidential candidate (Hilary Clinton), had changed their names. CNET called the segment a "lengthy excoriation" of Trump, and commented that Oliver had "a greater purpose" than "mere satire", which was to influence Americans to care enough to vote against Trump. S.I. Rosenbaum of The Washington Post was more critical, saying that making fun of foreign names "traffics in the very xenophobia that is Trump’s sick stock in trade."
Us Weekly and Bustle both noted that in the aftermath of Oliver's segment, a Misplaced Pages page for Donald Drumpf was created.
DeepDrumpf, which received its namesake from Oliver's segment, is a Twitterbot created at MIT which posts tweets to Twitter in an imitation of Trump.
Name change timing dispute
While sources agree that Drumpf is the ancestral name of Trump, and that neither Donald Trump or his father were named Drumpf, they disagree on when the family name was changed, whether in the 1600s or 1885. Some articles state that the name change happened in 1885, claiming that Donald Trump's grandfather, Frederick Trump, was formerly named Freidrich Drumpf. The Bustle and US Weekly magazines both quoted Misplaced Pages in stating that Trump's grandfather was Friedrich Drumpf. Snopes.com also reported that Drumpf is indeed the original family name, but the writers were unable to determine what year the name was changed to Trump.
Some published sources put forth that the name change occurred in the 1600s. In her 2001 book The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate, the biographer Gwenda Blair wrote that the Trump's family name was changed during the Thirty Years' War, as evidenced by John Philip Trump who lived in the 1600s. Blair also wrote that Frederick Trump's original name was Friedrich Trump, and his father was Johannes Trump of the 1800s. This was endorsed by The Boston Globe and The New York Times, with the latter writing, "Despite mistaken impressions, Mr. Trump and his recent relatives had nothing to do with the surname change. Mr. Oliver himself was careful to refer to a 'prescient ancestor.'" A reporter from The Guardian who visited Kallstadt, where Trump's grandfather was born, called him Friedrich Trump, describing that "the Trump family name has had various permutations over the past five hundred years, according to the local church register", but did not mention Drumpf. Genealogy organization FamilySearch provided information on Friedrich Trump, listing his father as Johann Ii Trump, while a genealogist at About.com listed Donald Trump's grandfather as Friederich Trump and great-grandfather as Christian Johannes Trump.
References
- ^ "John Oliver Demolishes 'Serial Liar' Donald Trump". The Huffington Post. February 29, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
- ^ "John Oliver Destroys Donald Trump: 'You Are Either a Racist or You Are Pretending to Be'". The Daily Beast. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
- ^ Justin Wm. Moyer (February 29, 2016). "John Oliver slams Trump, a.k.a. Donald 'Drumpf,' for 22 brutal minutes". Washington Post. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
- Melissa Locker. "John Oliver Takes On Donald Trump On Last Week Tonight". TIME.com. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
- ^ Reed, Ryan (February 29, 2016). "Watch John Oliver Annihilate Donald Trump, Re-Brand 'Drumpf'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- "John Oliver Destroys Donald Trump In 'Last Week Tonight' Rant". The Inquisitr News. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- Nelson, Libby (March 2, 2016). "Donald Trump's deep insecurity about his "short fingers," explained". Vox. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- "Donald Trump denies knowing anything about people making fun of his 'small fingers'". The Week. March 1, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ^ "'Drumpf' trademark application filed". World Intellectual Property Review. March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- "Primarily Merely a Drumpf". JD Supra. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- Bonnie Burton (March 4, 2016). "Drumpf Twitterbot learns to imitate Trump via deep-learning algorithm". CNET. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
The Twitterbot DeepDrumpf takes its name from "Last Week Tonight" host and comedian John Oliver who lambasted Trump on his February 28 show
- Swartz, Tracy (March 4, 2016). "Donald Drumpf browser extension installed more than 333K times". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- "'Donald Drumpf' Is Beating Rubio and Cruz for Second in Google Searches". The New York Times. March 2, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
- ^ Victor, Daniel (March 2, 2016). "Donald Drumpf: A Funny Label, but Is It Fair". The New York Times.
- Matyszczyk, Chris. "John Oliver slams Trump for 22 minutes, creates new hashtag for him". CNET. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- S.I. Rosenbaum (March 3, 2016). "John Oliver's 'Donald Drumpf' jokes play on the same ugly xenophobia Trump does". The Washington Post.
- ^ Webber, Stephanie. "Donald Drumpf Misplaced Pages Now Exists After John Oliver's Donald Trump Takedown". Us Weekly. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- Bonnie Burton (March 4, 2016). "Drumpf Twitterbot learns to imitate Trump via deep-learning algorithm". CNET. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
The Twitterbot DeepDrumpf takes its name from "Last Week Tonight" host and comedian John Oliver who lambasted Trump on his February 28 show
- "¿Quién es Donald J Drumpf y por qué genera tanta controversia en EE.UU.?" (in Spanish). BBC Mundo. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- Crawford, Hilary E. "Donald Drumpf's Misplaced Pages Page Is Proof That John Oliver's 'Last Week Night' Segment Had The Impact It Deserves". Bustle. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- Kim LaCapria (March 1, 2016). "TRUE: Trump's Family Surname Was Once 'Drumpf'". Snopes. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- Blair, Gwenda (2001). The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate. Simon and Schuster. p. 26-27. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- "Why Donald Trump trumps Donald Drumpf". The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- Connolly, Kate. "Kallstadt, Germany: on the trail of 'the Donald' in the Trump ancestral home". The Guardian. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- "Friedrich Trump". FamilySearch. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- Powell, Kimberly. "Ancestry of Donald Trump - Great Grandparents". About.com. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
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