"Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver spoke out against the president Sunday night saying that his response to the devastation in Puerto Rico has been “horribly racist.”

“How are you even trying to take a victory lap right now?” Oliver said in response to the President’s claim that “an amazing job is being done in Puerto Rico” and "tremendous progress" has been made.

“Getting aid to a disaster zone is a huge challenge but Trump’s rosy assessment of success has been disputed by many on the ground, like San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who went on TV to plead for more aid and got a depressingly predictable response from the president,” he said.

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Following the mayor’s public plea for help, Trump said that she was being “nasty” and tweeted, “The mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump. Such poor leadership ability by the mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help."

Oliver also took exception to a Trump tweet that the comedian said accused the people of Puerto Rico of being lazy.

"They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort,” Trump tweeted.

“The primary obstacle to hurricane relief has been Puerto Rican laziness?” said Oliver. “You have got to hand it to Trump: anybody can say horribly racist things about Hispanic people on a golden escalator, but it takes real balls to do it while their fellow citizens are dying. Trump is basically saying: ‘When hurricanes hit our people, they’re not hitting our best, they’re killing poors, they’re killing lazies and some I assume have said nice things about me.’ ”

Many Democrats criticized what was seen as a callous response by the president to the tragedy. "Today our President will sit in his opulent golf resort attacking hurricane first responders," tweeted Sen. Chris Murphy Christopher (Chris) Scott MurphyDemocratic senator calls for 'more flexible' medical supply chain to counter pandemics The Hill's 12:30 Report - Presented by Facebook - Don't expect a government check anytime soon GOP chairman to release interim report on Biden probe 'in about a week' MORE (D-Conn.). On Sunday, Trump dedicated his golf trophy to hurricane victims.