John Oliver poked fun at President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom at an event highlighting that 12 million children in the U.S. grow up in poverty each year.

“It is wild... to get a news alert saying President Donald Trump just demolished the East Wing of the White House,” the comedian said on Wednesday at Comic Relief Live in New York City, a charity event packed with performers who poked fun at the “moment of history” we’re living in.

“Thirty years ago, every element of that sentence would have sounded completely insane,” Oliver said, before quoting the 79-year-old president who said in the past that people are “loving” his plan to demolish the wing and have wanted a White House ballroom for 150 years—but that “there’s never been a president that’s good at ballrooms.”

“Nobody gi

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