John Oliver compares Elon Musks Doge Department with the Viral Willy Wonka experience

John Oliver compares Elon Musk's new role in Donald Trump's government with the notorious Willy Wonka experience, which became viral in 2024, and claims that the billionaire's new department has “no idea what they are doing”.

The last week tonight The host began his Sunday (February 23) by concentrating on Musk and his new former Department of Government Efficiency or Doge.

Under Musk, the new office that works “outside the government” will advise on the reduction of the federal departments and which employees should be released if it considers a “massive waste”.

Musiness has been in office since Trump's return after numerous jobs had been reduced, and the FBI director Kash Patel asked the employees to ignore Musk's ultimatum.

Oliver began the segment by producing an incident in which the musk had drastically overloaded the amount of money the department had saved, and said it was “many numbers away” from the originally advertised figure.

“In fact, there was no strong separation between marketing and reality, as it turned out that the experience of Glasgow Wonka was actually,” joked the comedian.

A picture of the unfortunate actor who played an Oompa Lompa at the virus event was then displayed on the screen. “At the moment we are all of them,” joked Oliver.

The 47-year-old also criticized Musk's chainsaw stunt at CPAC, where he waved the powered power tool over his head, while he was cheered on by Argentina's right President Javier Mieli.

“I must not legally say what I want to happen there, but I can and I think really hard now,” he said. “But a chainsaw may actually be a fairly suitable metaphor for Doge, because Musk is hastily and without much precision.”

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Oliver added: “The repeated government had to try to hire employees who suddenly recognized them were essential. On Monday we learned that they were trying to hire more than 300 employees commissioned to manage America's nuclear weapons. On Tuesday, the USDA accidentally said employees who are working on the outbreak of bird flu at the Federal Government's reaction. “

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While the chainsaw over his head kept Musk the crowd: “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.”

When the crowd cheered him, Musk explained: “I became the mem. Yes, pretty much. It is how, it lives the dream and lives the meme, and it's pretty much what happens, do you know? I mean, Doge started as a meme, thinks about it, and now it's real. Isn't that crazy? But it's cool. “