Donald Trump and The Death of Satire…
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American and British politicians have provided rich pickings for satirists, writers and artists on both sides of the Atlantic, over the decades.
And the leading figures of the first age of neoliberalism weren’t immune from being remorselessly mocked by sketch writers.
As extraordinarily formidable as Britain’s first woman Prime Minister was, the clever clogs at ITV, found several ways of sending her up, in the ground breaking Splitting Image show.
And It didn’t matter that Ronald Reagan was something of a transformative figure, who brought the revolutionary ideas of Milton Friedman and Frederick Hayek to life, the two-term Republican President was lampooned as profoundly stupid.
And the spirit of parodying didn’t end with Reagan and Thatcher.
For political aficionados of a particular age, George H.W. Bush’s dentures falling into his glass of water and his vomiting in Japan, played into the hands of the late night talk show hosts in the early 1990s.