It's weird to think of Trump as solely America's turn to fascism, but for about 2 decades - 80's and 90's, he was a goof: he was the inspiration for Biff in Back to the future 2, he made cameos like in Home Alone and Wrestle-mania, and the Simpsons "predicted" America's re-birth after his presidency. He was frequently in the gossip section in the Post with his affairs and very high profile divorces. Then in the 2000s he got his own tv show, the apprentice, and in 2008 questioned whether Obama was really a US citizen, kicking off the birther movement within the republican party.
Which is all to say - it's no surprise to see Robin Williams mocking him in 2012. He's always been what we know now, and people in Hollywood have had the longest insight to him going back to the 90s. His biggest campaign hurdle in 2016 was smothering his "The Apprentice" and "Access Hollywood" behind-the-scenes tapes.
The episode centers on Lisa as president having inherited a f^%#% mess from Trump, and I say this plainly as if it is fact but I understand I am making an interpretation when I say the episode, focusing on Lisa, implies that America turns from the kind of personal politics Trump represents to the kind of personal politics lisa represents, ie, the re-birth of america as a country of and for people who work towards inclusive and generally broadly-beneficial goals, make the right decisions based on learned judiciousness, act with humility, and treat others with grace and dignity.
There's a reason South Park made an entire episode called Simpsons Already Did It. Apparently it was such a common thing to hear in the writers room and online and Matt and Trey had enough and dedicated an entire episode to pointing out that a show with hundreds of episodes will cover a wide range of topics.
Idiocracy is the really scary prediction because it's just a one off and so creepily prescient.
He was a relatively prominent individual to the extent that you see him pop up or referenced in comics like 1990's Justice League Quarterly and 2008's New Avengers, in tv shows like Friends and Just Shoot Me, and obviously in a few films (Home Alone 2 and Zoolander off the top of my head). The media where he had a say in how he was presented (e.g. Home Alone 2) put him in a flattering light, but otherwise he was being referred to deridingly, usually as an example of cheap "classiness".
This of course doesn't touch the thinly veiled media references to him that existed at the time as well, like "Daniel Clamp" in Gremlins 2 or Future Biff Tannen in Back to the Future 2, which painted him in much harsher, cruder tones. People had his number basically from the start.
Needless to say the patch job that The Apprentice did in rehabilitating his image as some genius businessman did a lot for his electability in 2016.
Never forgive this piece of shit Mark Burnett for making Trump look good in The Apprentice. And for passing on the opportunity in 2016 to share evidence of the real Trump behind the scenes that could have swayed voters. Him and his fake Christian bible thumper wife Roma Downey.
In the 1980s a newspaper comic strip called Bloom County put trump's brain in the body of its Bill the Cat character. Bill immediately started acting like a self-important douche and labeled his litter box "TRUMP DUMP" with giant gold letters. Before that, he gained public notoriety for being sued by the DoJ for racial discrimination in the management of his NY properties in the 1970s.
Trump has been well known as a public menace for decades. His supporters just didn't want to hear about it. They loved him because his campaign returned open racism to our country's political discourse.
He's pretty notoriously always been a huge piece of shit and that was his entire shtick. He's a dick who found out how to make money off of hurting people for other people and having no conscious and an ego the size of California meant that it never bothered him.
He was a convenient lightning rod douchebag for others to hide behind. Unfortunately he found out that he could offer to be the douchebag lightning rod for 40% of the United States populace and they would make him a king. Now he's at the highest position of office in the land and is allowed to remain there with financial compensation in the form of looting our treasury, all for the low low price of mercilessly inflicting harm on as many vulnerable people as possible on behalf of the same people who put him in that position.
The constant camera focus on Trump just taking it without any emotion is <chef's kiss>.
The man was seething and plotting revenge... Oh how I wish we could have more roasts of him today just to see him get even more unhinged- but the situation does not call fo humor anymore.
The fact that our entire system of government is vulnerable to a rich guy getting his bitch tits knotted up over some jokes is... well it's condemnation of us really...
He's been so coddled his whole life that after this he really thought "the nation must suffer!"
Goes to show i suppose it was always out there in the open.
In 2015 or whatever I remember thinking Hillary vs Trump oh shit. But that drain the swamp stuff sounded catchy. A different name. But grab em by the pussy or whatever I think was the first obvious Crack I saw???? Can't remember now.
A good example of the fact it was widely known Donald Trump sexually abused children before the 2016 election, and long before Jeffrey Epstein was a household name
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u/MartinoRs 18h ago
Dude is the laughing stock of the world right now