--- title: John Oliver on Trump Twitter Attack on Stephen Colbert VIDEO description: The 'Last Week Tonight' host is now part of Stephen Colbert's "Trump Attacked Me on Twitter" Hall of Fame over a tweet Oliver says is a lie. canonical: https://time.com/4856483/john-oliver-trump-attacked-twitter/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-13T15:16:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:21.513Z og:title: Watch John Oliver on the Time Trump Attacked Him on Twitter og:description: He's officially joined the "Trump Attacked Me on Twitter" Hall of Fame og:url: https://time.com/4856483/john-oliver-trump-attacked-twitter/ 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 on the Time Trump Attacked Him on Twitter twitter:description: He's officially joined the "Trump Attacked Me on Twitter" Hall of Fame twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch John Oliver on Why He's So Confused About Trump's 'Pathetic' Twitter Attack on Him  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 13, 2017 3:16 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 13, 2017 3:16 PM UTC Comedian [John Oliver](http://time.com/4856474/john-oliver-donald-trump-jr-emails-russia/) has become an official honoree in Stephen Colbert’s new “Trump Attacked Me on Twitter” Hall of Fame. The ever-incisive Oliver took a moment to reflect on the confusing “meaningless lie” in the tweet that got him into the illustrious Hall _—_ a fateful missive sent out back in October 2015. “John Oliver had his people call to ask me to be on his very boring and low rated show. I said “NO THANKS” waste \[sic\] of time & energy!” Trump wrote back then. Oliver, who hosts HBO’s popular _Last Week Tonight_ weekly news program, humbly admitted that his show may be “boring” and a “waste of time and energy.” But he disputed the suggestion that he — or any of his employees — had ever invited Trump on the show to begin with. “That is a lie. It was very odd to be on the receiving end of a lie that was that confident from someone who is now president. We never asked him,” he said. “So it was a total lie, and a meaningless lie. In fact a lie so meaningless, it almost becomes meaningful,” he mused. “Because what kind of moron would lie about something this pathetic?” > [](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/660597552023228416) Oliver follows in the footsteps of inaugural Hall of Fame members [Joe Scarborough](http://time.com/4854234/joe-scarborough-leaves-republican-party-morning-joe/) and [Mika Brzezinksi](http://time.com/4841282/donald-trump-mika-brzezinski-morning-joe-scarborough/), the hosts of frequently Trump-targeted show [_Morning Joe_](http://time.com/4840993/donald-trump-joe-scarborough-national-inquirer/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4856483/john-oliver-trump-attacked-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4856483/john-oliver-trump-attacked-twitter/"},"headline":"Watch John Oliver on Why He's So Confused About Trump's 'Pathetic' Twitter Attack on Him","datePublished":"2017-07-13T15:16:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:21.513Z","description":"The 'Last Week Tonight' host is now part of Stephen Colbert's \"Trump Attacked Me on Twitter\" Hall of Fame over a tweet Oliver says is a lie.","url":"https://time.com/4856483/john-oliver-trump-attacked-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","twitter","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","John Oliver"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"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/4856483/john-oliver-trump-attacked-twitter/","name":"Watch John Oliver on Why He's So Confused About Trump's 'Pathetic' Twitter Attack on Him"}}]}] ```