On Sunday night’s “Last Week Tonight” Oliver broke down the budget proposal by first highlighting the origin of the policy decisions. He showed a recent clip from “CBS This Morning” in which the director of Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, explained how he and the Trump administration arrived at the budget.

“Wrote the budget by going through the president’s speeches, going through the interviews he had given and talking to him directly and finding out what his priorities were,” Mulvaney said. “We took those words, those policies, and turned them into numbers.”

Oliver was positively shocked at this revelation:

“Basically, Mulvaney treated Trump’s past statements the way Trump treats women: Randomly singling out a few of them and then reducing them down to numbers.”

The late-night comedian could not understand how somebody could listen to a Trump speech and derive any meaningful policy considerations from it. “Last Week Tonight” then played a clip of Trump comparing America’s nuclear capabilities with that of Russia.