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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVanity Fair: "How Sarah Cooper Trumped Donald Trump--Without Saying a Word"
For myself, the most amazing thing she's accomplished is making it possible
to listen to Mad Donald's inane blather without getting physically sick.
"My husband has to hear Donald Trumps voice over and over again," says Sarah Cooper. "I think hes probably going to jump out the window at some point."
The writer-comedian occupies an unusual place in our culture: Many of her most ardent fans have never heard her talk. This spring, Cooper started going viral on TikTok and Twitter for her virtuoso Trump lip syncs, satirizing his tackiest and most ludicrous sound bites, such as when he compared himself to Abraham Lincoln or swore he never hid in a bunker. Her acting is as slyly inspired as her lip-synching. In How to Bunker, her Trump defends his honor while cowering in the shower and clutching at the curtain.
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"Being a black woman, I could never get away with talking like that in a meeting, let alone as president of the United States, Cooper says of Trumps coronavirus press briefings, which inspired her parodies. Making the videosa process that can take up to four hours, between memorization and filminghas also given her insight into the presidents psyche: Any time he had to talk about grief, or loss of life, he stumbled. Hes not comfortable with empathy. Hes not comfortable with grief. Hes not comfortable with anything that makes him feel bad or look bad.
Though Coopers disdain for Trump is clear, MAGA true believers have praised her work: I really thought I was going to get a ton of hate mail. [But] that hasnt happened because, on some level, theyre entertaining to his supporters as well. I dont know how to feel about that. Cooper suspects that Trump himself has watched. I think he thinks I like what hes saying, she says, half whispering the dark notion. Maybe! If youre a sociopath, you dont get emotional cues.
The writer-comedian occupies an unusual place in our culture: Many of her most ardent fans have never heard her talk. This spring, Cooper started going viral on TikTok and Twitter for her virtuoso Trump lip syncs, satirizing his tackiest and most ludicrous sound bites, such as when he compared himself to Abraham Lincoln or swore he never hid in a bunker. Her acting is as slyly inspired as her lip-synching. In How to Bunker, her Trump defends his honor while cowering in the shower and clutching at the curtain.
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"Being a black woman, I could never get away with talking like that in a meeting, let alone as president of the United States, Cooper says of Trumps coronavirus press briefings, which inspired her parodies. Making the videosa process that can take up to four hours, between memorization and filminghas also given her insight into the presidents psyche: Any time he had to talk about grief, or loss of life, he stumbled. Hes not comfortable with empathy. Hes not comfortable with grief. Hes not comfortable with anything that makes him feel bad or look bad.
Though Coopers disdain for Trump is clear, MAGA true believers have praised her work: I really thought I was going to get a ton of hate mail. [But] that hasnt happened because, on some level, theyre entertaining to his supporters as well. I dont know how to feel about that. Cooper suspects that Trump himself has watched. I think he thinks I like what hes saying, she says, half whispering the dark notion. Maybe! If youre a sociopath, you dont get emotional cues.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/07/how-sarah-cooper-trumped-donald-trump/amp
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Vanity Fair: "How Sarah Cooper Trumped Donald Trump--Without Saying a Word" (Original Post)
Pluvious
Jul 2020
OP
underpants
(182,878 posts)1. She hit a nerve
Thats for sure
leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)2. Maybe the funniest part of this
is the fact that the MAGAts like her posts and don't seem to understand that she's making fun of the Idiot-in-Chief!
Pluvious
(4,315 posts)3. Yeah !! That really surprised me too...
Kinna reminds me of a similar phenomenon with The Colbert Show.