Donald Trump’s favorite anti-LGBTQ network is telling people not to follow coronavirus rules

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John Oliver called out the network for comparing stay-at-home orders to “slavery” and “Hitler’s Germany.”

Donald Trump’s love of a far-right, anti-LGBTQ network was called out on Last Week Tonight as the channel has been telling viewers to ignore coronavirus prevention measures like stay-at-home orders.

Host John Oliver, who was broadcasting without an audience because of the current pandemic, did a segment on the One America News Network (OANN). Trump has repeatedly called on the network to ask questions during briefings, mainly because those questions are often thinly-veiled attacks on the left instead of actual questions to get information that people want to know from Trump.

Related: Think Fox News is bad? Wait until you see One America News Network.

OANN has a history of anti-LGBTQ bias. In 2018, they reported that a conversion therapy ban would “prohibit the sale of the Bible,” a claim that Snopes rated as false (the bill had nothing to do with the sales of any books, much less the Bible).

And their antipathy isn’t limited to LGBTQ humans. Last year, an OANN host called out a zoo for not announcing the sex of a penguin, saying that the zoo is attacking “traditional marriage” and trying to make people dependent on “the government” in a rambling rant.

“Don’t let transgender penguins fool you,” she warned her viewers, who apparently are legitimately at risk of being fooled by waterfowl.

The network has shown extreme bias in favor of Trump…

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