Opinion

Orange man bad! Is TV satire dead?

By Jane Goodall
Updated September 27 2020 - 2:15pm, first published September 26 2020 - 4:30am
Comedian John Di Domenico records a video as US President Donald Trump for the Cameo personalised messaging service. Picture: Getty Images
Comedian John Di Domenico records a video as US President Donald Trump for the Cameo personalised messaging service. Picture: Getty Images

"Oh, please. Don't allege that he's thinking. Somebody told him something, and he can't quite remember what it was. China bad, we good." This might be a comment on Donald Trump from any recent American current affairs program. But it dates from 2003, when literary lion Gore Vidal was talking about George W. Bush, an incumbent he regarded as representing a new low for the presidency.

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