This weekend, one newspaper in Scotland trolled Trump with their description of his inauguration and it was perfect.
The entire world is staring at the United States and the tangerine demagogue we have elected as president in utter disbelief. While we have become the laughing stock of the globe, there is also a pervasive fear of what this will mean in the long run for all of us. The Sunday Herald in Scotland knew just how to make this point.
In the TV preview section of Sunday’s edition of the paper, Trump’s inauguration is scheduled for 4 pm on the BBC and featured this hilarious description:
After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories — among the most common is the “What If The Nazis Had Won The Second World War” setting — but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present.
The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today’s feature length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead. It’s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we’re not careful.
Well, that about sums it up, doesn’t it? The only thing that seems at all inaccurate in this description is that Trump’s inauguration isn’t likely to be particularly “gaudy” considering A-list celebrities have been turning him down left and right. Nobody who is anybody wants to be associated with Trump and his racist, homophobic, misogynistic bullsh*t. So it probably won’t be all that “gaudy” at all. Although judging by Trump’s gold gilded home, there are still plenty of ways he could still manage to make it the tackiest event of the year.
If only Trump’s presidency were fiction instead of reality. But alas, this is real life.
Brilliant TV preview in today’s @newsundayherald pic.twitter.com/nFvyDjKTyl
— Tom Gordon (@HTScotPol) January 15, 2017
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