On Sunday's episode of "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver finally went after Donald Trump.
The British late night host has long refused to give Trump the attention he craves, but with Trump's path to the Republican nomination becoming increasingly, scarily clear, Oliver decided to throw down the gauntlet.
The evening's best moment came when Oliver revealed that, according to a biography of the Trump family, an ancestor had changed the family name to Trump from Drumpf - a name that, as Oliver says, resembles "the sound produced when a morbidly obese pigeon flies into the window of a foreclosed Old Navy".
Sincerely delighted I got to see this in the studio set to a Donald Drumpf themed @donwill banger. pic.twitter.com/B2mPNNkKSS
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) February 29, 2016
The show concluded with a plea for Americans to #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain. If you need help, check out this website, where you can get your very own "Make Donald Drumpf Again" hat and a Google Chrome extension that changes every mention of Trump to Drumpf.
Naturally, the Twitterverse had lots to say about Donald's Drumpfing:
Got that Chrome Drumpf plugin from https://t.co/G65dOOT4eM #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain pic.twitter.com/fwKWr2D0G2
— Ricky Reed (@Wallpaper) February 29, 2016
Well this makes sense: an anagram for Donald Drumpf is Mr Dud And Flop. #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain #auspol
— Broelman (@Broelman) March 1, 2016
.@Wikipedia already has a Donald Drumpf redirect setup. #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain pic.twitter.com/hfp2EShEw8
— Moiz Syed (@MoizSyed) February 29, 2016
Drumpf: The sound of an ego deflating.#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain @LastWeekTonight
— beautifulpigeon (@beautifulpigeon) February 29, 2016
When in New York please stay at the luxurious Drumpf Tower #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain pic.twitter.com/lytimD8Z6s
— (((Uncle John))) (@azmoderate) February 29, 2016
And if you haven't seen it yet, enjoy:
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