1. Like everyone else, I love Sarah Cooper's Trump lip-sync feats. I think one reason they work is that they don't try to exaggerate Trump but rather to underscore the absurdity of his own words.https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1253474772702429189 …
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3. The other normalization occurs in the briefings & media reports. Everyone around Trump is straightfaced even when he says whackadoodle things, thus normalizing him. And press quotes tend to tidy-up Trump's frequent wayward turns and incoherence.
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4. Some more thoughts on the comedy of
@sarahcpr (with a glace at the work of@MariaDeCotis) here:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/sarah-cooper-trump-comedy/ …Show this thread
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His impression is all about the jutting lower lip, something I've never seen Trump do. Trump has such white dude thin lips, he can't even jut them.
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Yeah that’s always been the weirdest part to me. It’s not a recognizable Trump
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Her performance art exposes Trump for what he is: a crude but effective performance artist.
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Baldwin is an absurd egoist and so his is not so much a parody as an attempt at self effacing wit.
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I suspect Baldwin has spent time with Trump so he might know more about Trump than you think. He lives in NYC most of the time and he was on Celebrity Apprentice.
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But what about Anthony Atamanuik? His Trump is both dead-on, but also absurdist
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@chaircrusher below, that Baldwin's parody is surface &poorly thought-out. It is clear he does not "get" his target, which good parody needs. Atamanuik perversely respects Trump & thus can laser in on & further their absurdity
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