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John Oliver is the latest to mock Nancy Pelosi for her widely ridiculed TikTok pun. On HBO's 'Last Week Tonight,' the host brought up how the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would lead to a ban on TikTok if its China-based owner doesn't sell its stake. The bill passed on concerns that the app poses a national security threat under the ownership of Chinese technology firm ByteDance Ltd.
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00:00John Oliver is the latest to mock Nancy Pelosi for her widely ridiculed TikTok pun last week.
00:06On HBO's Last Week Tonight, the host brought up how the U.S. House of Representatives
00:10passed a bill that could lead to the ban on TikTok if its China-based owner didn't sell its stake.
00:16The bill passed on concerns that the app poses a national security threat
00:20under the ownership of Chinese technology firm ByteDance.
00:23Oliver then introduced a clip of former House Speaker Pelosi explaining the motivation behind the bill.
00:28This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better.
00:34Tic-tac-toe. A winner.
00:37Oliver had his own thoughts about the cringeworthy pun.
00:40I'm curious, is it a rule that to be in Congress you have to be one of the weirdest motherfuckers to ever live?
00:45He also shared his theory as to how the line in Pelosi's speech got written.
00:50I would ask how that happened, but I think we all know she went to her speechwriter and said,
00:54I have the perfect line for the TikTok vote. And they said, hey, did you just say TikTok?
00:57Oliver concluded, Pelosi then marched to the floor and alienated every American under the age of 35.
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