--- title: John Oliver Makes Political Endorsements on Last Week Tonight description: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump never come up canonical: https://time.com/4410376/john-oliver-endorsements/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-18T14:17:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:29.205Z og:title: Watch John Oliver Make a Few Endorsements og:description: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump never come up og:url: https://time.com/4410376/john-oliver-endorsements/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Oliver Make a Few Endorsements twitter:description: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump never come up twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch John Oliver Make a Few Endorsements by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 18, 2016 2:17 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 18, 2016 2:17 PM UTC [_Last Week Tonight_](http://time.com/4383237/john-oliver-olympic-doping-last-week-tonight/)is still on a mini-hiatus, but [John Oliver](http://time.com/4401025/watch-john-oliver-read-mean-fan-mail-from-youtube/) couldn’t miss the opportunity to make a few endorsements in the upcoming presidential election, otherwise known as “Uncle Sam’s Rock Bottom Yankee Doodle Suicide Pact” (at least according to Oliver). Gloria Steinem, Oprah and Stevie Wonder have all endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, while the Republican party’s Donald Trump has been endorsed by Kid Rock, Stephen Baldwin and “the sound of a motorcycle peeling out of a White Castle parking lot.” Of course as a Brit, Oliver can’t really make political endorsements in the U.S. but that didn’t stop him from endorsing a bunch of other things, like animals wearing people clothes, inter-species friendships, gingham shirts with mismatched ties and many other important things. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4410376/john-oliver-endorsements/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4410376/john-oliver-endorsements/"},"headline":"Watch John Oliver Make a Few Endorsements","datePublished":"2016-07-18T14:17:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:29.205Z","description":"Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump never come up","url":"https://time.com/4410376/john-oliver-endorsements/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","John Oliver","Last Week Tonight","2016 presidential campaign"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4410376/john-oliver-endorsements/","name":"Watch John Oliver Make a Few Endorsements"}}]}] ```