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It'd be hilarious if CNN and other news agencies did something that'd totally skewer and enrage the president in response to his bullshit: stop showing live footage / coverage of Trump, and instead just have either News anchors attempting to read his quotes word for word, or have something like a black lesbian actor portray Trump recreating his word soup speeches. Or maybe have it be cartoony animated re-enactments, similar to what we sometimes see come out of Asia. "Subtlety" emphasize things like his sleeping, shitting himself, hair issues, simp'ing for Harp, etc.
A narcissist, having his public appearance clipped.
Or maybe just officially partner with SNL to do skits for presidential news coverage. America's a fuckin joke these days anyhow, may aswell embrace it.
This is actually a really bad idea. During the election cycle, anchors would often quote Trump and Harris without showing direct clips because it allowed them to quickly convey the candidate's positions and get into any commentary the broadcasters wanted to do.
The results sanewashed Trump. Instead of long, meandering diatribes, the news was going, "Trump vowed to lower grocery prices on day one if elected. When pressed on how, he did not provide additional information."
Which sounds way more coherent and electable than anything that actually comes out of his mouth. The further removed from the direct source you are, the easier it is for people to dismiss the things he says and does as exaggerations by the news media when the truth is that the news media is underselling the madness.
You think that is bad, you should see how they translate what he says in Spanish speaking countries. They make him sound smart instead of the complete idiot he is.
Oh, I'm not saying to shorten it or clean it up. Have them read the whole thing, word for word, as best they can.
I think it was in his first term, for example, when foreign news translators were getting in trouble constantly for translating what he said directly -- his drivel was such nonsense that people just couldn't believe it, it all sounded so stupid. And without Trumps cadence, the stupidity stands out even more. If you add on to that an actor that's the "wrong color" for Trumps pride, and make them stumble over his nonsense word choices, with the occasional "woops I'm shitting myself midspeech" facial expression thrown in for good measure...
I mean, I'd be laughing pretty hard. And I'm sure Trump, if he saw that on multiple stations, would go totally off the deep end. It's petty, and low brow, so I'm pretty sure he'd be able to understand it.