{"id":4779,"date":"2026-08-03T05:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:06:37","slug":"john-oliver-says-taco-bell-has-the-moral-high-ground-over-trump-administration-amid-explosive-diarrhea-parasite-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4779","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Says Taco Bell Has the Moral High Ground Over Trump Administration Amid \u201cExplosive Diarrhea\u201d Parasite Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAs four more U.S. states saw a breakout in cyclospora cases, linked to contaminated lettuce, John Oliver decided to weigh in on the parasite causing \u201cdebilitating explosive diarrhea\u201d across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4778\">Morgan Wallen\u2019s Year-Old Album Manages to Climb Back Atop the Charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tA total of nine states have now reported cases of cyclospora, which has been attributed to shredded iceberg lettuce sources by Taylor Farms. And according to recent data, almost 2,000 people in those states got sick after consuming the lettuce at a Taco Bell restaurant. Overall, it\u2019s estimated that there are nearly 12,000 cases, with that number expected to grow.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn Sunday\u2019s <em>Last Week Tonight, <\/em>Oliver played a news clip in which the reporter advised viewers dining at a restaurant to \u201cask the source of their lettuce or \u2026 eat cooked vegetables instead\u201d to avoid getting sick.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tResponded Oliver: \u201cYeah, the best advice they have for you right now is to basically play lettuce detective at every restaurant. And what are you really expecting them to say? \u2018Oh shit, we actually get it from Sam\u2019s Parasite Barn. We were hoping no one would ask.\u2019 \u2018Cause let\u2019s be honest, your server doesn\u2019t know where the restaurant sources their lettuce. Their main concern is that the bartender they fucked last week stopped working Mondays, and their manager won\u2019t release next month\u2019s schedule unless everyone goes to a poetry night, so why not give them all a break and just order soup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOliver then played another news clip in which the reporter said the symptoms include \u201cdebilitating, explosive diarrhea\u201d that can last for weeks. The new clips also featured three people who had the illness describing their pain as \u201cunbearable\u201d and \u201chorrible.\u201d One noted that some folks are hoping to get the parasite to lose weight: \u201cNo, you don\u2019t,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNoted Oliver \u201cOf course you don\u2019t. Nobody should be looking at the people who pooped so weird that they made it onto the news and think, \u2018It should have been me.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCiting another news report, Oliver quoted an epidemiologist who described the illness\u2019 symptoms as \u201cuncontrollable and it\u2019s very liquid. If you\u2019ve seen pictures from cholera wars where the patients are on gurneys and the gurney has a hole where your butt goes and there\u2019s a bucket underneath the hole, it\u2019s very similar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSaid Oliver: \u201cNo offense, but I don\u2019t think that epidemiologist should be allowed to give statements anymore. We were looking for something like, \u2018It\u2019ll cause digestive issues,\u2019 not \u2018Taco Bell made American shit so hard and wet they need assless beds like a 19th century poop ward.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4776\">Ariana Grande to \u201cStep Back From Visibility\u201d After Tour Ends Amid \u201cOngoing Public Scrutiny\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs Taco Bell sales dropped, the company put out a statement to reassure consumers: \u201cWe want you to hear it from us. We take your health and safety seriously and have removed all affected Taylor Farms lettuce from Taco Bell stores. So go ahead and enjoy your Taco Bell today. You always got us. We always got you. See you in the drive-through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cNo, you fucking won\u2019t,\u201d Oliver quipped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOliver did give credit to Taco Bell for at least addressing the problem, while then turning to President Donald Trump and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for creating a situation wherein authorities are not able to respond as effectively as in years past. He noted that the\u00a0 Food and Drug Administration \u201chas been underfunded for decades now,\u201d but under the Trump administration, the FDA has lost 20 percent of its staff, and the Centers for Disease Control has lost 25 percent of its staff, including eight of its 11 scientists who track food parasites.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWait, only three people now?\u201d Oliver asked. \u201cThat is clearly not enough. It really feels like we shouldn\u2019t be able to fit the CDC\u2019s entire parasite tracking team comfortably onto a porch glider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOliver noted that the day after Kennedy said the crisis was under control, the FDA announced it was investigating a new outbreak. \u201cIt does say something pretty grim about America, that when it comes to acting swiftly to prevent a public health threat, the current government just lost the moral high ground to fucking Taco Bell,\u201d Oliver quipped.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe <em>Last Week Tonight<\/em> host ended the segment with a parody ad for Taco Bell that started: \u201cHey America, we at Taco Bell want you to know we care about your health and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt continued: \u201cWe know that because of our food, many of you have been shitting your brains out in a way that we never intended because Taco Bell\u2019s always prided itself on two things: having the wettest food in America and only giving you the regular normal level of diarrhea. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve temporarily removed lettuce from our food, so while you\u2019re powering through our Mexican food adjacent menu, including our, oh Jesus Christ, Sausage Crunchwrap Supreme, you can feel confident that you\u2019re avoiding one narrow definition of gastrointestinal disease. Again, we\u2019re not promising you won\u2019t get regular diarrhea from it. And you\u2019ve seen our food, right? There\u2019s something on the menu called Diablo Dusted Chicken Nuggets, OK? We\u2019re just saying, we\u2019ll try not to give you the kind of diarrhea that\u2019ll put you on the news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4774\">Sally Field Won Her First Emmy for 1976\u2019s \u2018Sybil\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver said Taco Bell has the moral high ground over the Trump administration amid &quot;explosive diarrhea&quot; parasite crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,121,122,123,124,125,116,3101],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-donald-trump","tag-hbo","tag-john-oliver","tag-last-week-tonight","tag-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver","tag-politics","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Oliver Says Taco Bell Has the Moral High Ground Over Trump Administration Amid \u201cExplosive Diarrhea\u201d Parasite Crisis - US Property Moves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4779\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Oliver Says Taco Bell Has the Moral High Ground Over Trump Administration Amid \u201cExplosive Diarrhea\u201d Parasite Crisis - US Property Moves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver said Taco Bell has the moral high ground over the Trump administration amid &quot;explosive diarrhea&quot; parasite crisis.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4779\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"US Property Moves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-03T05:06:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=4779#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=4779\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6dcb1ef8e64fe67b72b772b81aa822c\"},\"headline\":\"John Oliver Says Taco Bell Has the Moral High Ground Over Trump Administration Amid \u201cExplosive Diarrhea\u201d Parasite Crisis\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-03T05:06:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=4779\"},\"wordCount\":934,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=4779#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/857c9e985c5bdd7530bce9fabf92cfe7.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"donald trump\",\"hbo\",\"John Oliver\",\"last week tonight\",\"Last Week Tonight With John Oliver\",\"politics\",\"President Donald Trump\",\"Robert F. 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