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 In the wake of his nearly successful campaign to #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain (or at least sell a lot of hats emblazoned with the slogan), John Oliver once again has Donald Trump in his show’s cross hairs. 
 
 Last night, Oliver spent a new episode of Last Week Tonight doing his impression of the Kool Aid Man, knocking down the wall that the Republican presidential candidate wants to build to separate Mexico and the United States in order to curtail illegal immigration. While Trump has estimated the wall would only cost $4 billion, Oliver notes that, “Donald Trump’s margin of error is only the GDP of Moldova.” Oliver did the math on the project and the cost in both dollars and common sense is much more. 
 
 In his take down of the idea, Oliver noted that the wall would cost an estimated $26 billion, would sit on on private property, could take up to ten years to build and has serious effectiveness issues. Oliver believes there is a better way to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain — buy everyone waffle irons. 
 
 And, yes, he knows he looks like a pygmy owl when he delivers the news. 
 
 While the majority of the episode was dedicated to Trump’s wall, the show ended with a very important poll question: 
 
 Which dog would make the best Merrick Garland on their Dog Supreme Court? Vote now. ||||| If there’s one policy proposal Donald Trump has outlined in great detail, it’s his idea to build a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico—and, of course, to make Mexico pay for it. While the proposal has made a great talking point for Trump, it has also drawn a lot of well-deserved criticism—and on Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver delivered what might be the most thorough takedown yet. 
 
 
 
 At first, Oliver put aside the obvious racism implied by such a plan and instead tackled the absurdity of the plan itself—highlighting its rising proposed costs, the silliness of believing Mexico would pay for it (even as Mexican officials insist they would not), and the practical complications of actually building the wall itself. “It’s like getting a pet walrus,” Oliver said. “You think it’s stupid now? Wait until you find out what a bucket of sea cucumbers costs.” And then there’s the fact that the 30-foot wall could be surmounted by something as simple as a 31-foot ladder. 
 
 
 
 But of course Oliver wasn’t going to leave the racism and xenophobia aside for good. In fact, Trump’s comments that frame immigrants as criminals ignore the data that show that immigrants are less crime-prone than their native-born counterparts. So Oliver ended the segment by making a counterproposal, putting forward a plan that would cost less and do a better job of giving Americans what they truly crave: a warm feeling inside. ||||| LOWELL, Mass. — Donald Trump may have some explaining to do about footage used in his new campaign advertisement. 
 
 Released Monday, the TV ad shows people rushing towards a border fence as the narrator says Trump "will stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for." But that footage is of a Spanish enclave in Morocco, Politifact has found. 
 
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 The footage actually shows Moroccans crossing the border into Melilla and was shown on Italian network RepubblicaTV in May 2014. 
 
 The Trump campaign plans to air the ad in Iowa and New Hampshire, so far buying $750,000 in the Hawkeye State and $500,000 in the Granite State, according to NBC News. This is Trump’s first televised ad of the cycle, previously saying he didn’t need them because ads on top of all of the media attention would make people “OD on Trump.” However, with less than a month until the Iowa caucus, Trump has set a budget of $2 million per week to ensure victory in early states. 
 
 Asked about the video, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told NBC News, "No s***, it's not the Mexican border but that's what our country is going to look like. This was 1,000 percent on purpose." 
 
 Lewandowski later emailed a statement that said: "The use of this footage was intentional and selected to demonstrate the severe impact of an open border and the very real threat Americans face if we do not immediately build a wall and stop illegal immigration. The biased mainstream media doesn’t understand, but Americans who want to protect their jobs and their families do."
– John Oliver ignored Donald Trump for a long time, then devoted a whole show to ridiculing his candidacy. Now he's specifically going after Trump's plans for a big border wall. In the latest episode of his HBO show, Oliver delivered "what might be the most thorough takedown yet" of Trump's idea to keep out immigrants from Mexico, observes Slate. (See the video here.) Among Oliver's arguments, as rounded up by Time and Vox: It would cost about $26 billion, not $4 billion to $12 billion as Trump says; Mexico wouldn't pay for it; the wall would be a nightmare to build and would likely have to be on private property; and it wouldn't work anyway. Oliver's counterproposal: Buy every American a waffle iron. Says Oliver: "Because this waffle iron plan will cost less, it'll do nearly as much to keep out immigrants and drugs, it won't harm our relationship with our third-largest trading partner, (and) if it is racist it's only toward Belgians ..."