US President Donald Trump speaks during the panel discussion 'Launch Event Women's Entrepreneur Finance Initiative' on the second day of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 8, 2017.Leaders of the world's top economies gather from July 7 to 8, 2017 in Germany for likely the stormiest G20 summit in years, with disagreements ranging from wars to climate change and global trade. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Patrik STOLLARZ (Photo credit should read PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Showtime has given a ten-episode order to an untitled animated series centered around President Trump’s White House, executive produced by Stephen Colbert.
The series is inspired by the animated opening sequence of Colbert’s Emmy-nominated Showtime special, Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy’s Series Final: Who’s Going To Clean Up This Sh*t? The animated short imagines Trump’s presidential run to be entirely fueled by revenge for Obama cracking jokes at Trump’s expense at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.
The animated series will take things a step further by caricaturing Trump’s family, his staff, and the man himself as they attempt to navigate the White House. Production time is intended to be as quick as animation will allow, enabling the show to parody events as they happen.
In a sense, the untitled animation is taking the place of South Park, whose exhaustive coverage of last year’s melodramatic election provided animated political satire week by week. But South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker stated that they didn’t want to become the “Trump Show” and decided to cease adding to the noise.
It’ll be interesting to see how the series plays out, as today’s White House is becoming increasingly difficult to parody. A few years ago, nobody could have imagined that the President of the United States would fire out emotionally charged tweets in all-caps on a daily basis.
We’re living through events that will be easy to parody after they end; Saturday Night Live and Alec Baldwin did a pretty good job of poking fun of Trump, but often they were reduced to simply repeating whatever he’d said last night, proving how difficult it is to exaggerate an already bizarre situation.
South Park got creative by casting one of their most outrageous characters in the “Trump” role: Mr. Garrison - a misogynist, racist, sexually inappropriate schoolteacher who has undergone multiple sex changes on a whim. It worked, sort of. It exaggerated the Trump phenomenon to a ridiculous degree, and portrayed Mr. Garrison as a character in over his head, trying his hardest to lose the election by making ridiculously provocative statements, only to be undercut by Hillary Clinton’s inability to appear human.
While it was pretty funny at the time, the storyline failed to offer anything insightful about America's identity crisis, and doesn’t hold up for repeat viewings. Parker and Stone were assuming Trump would lose, and that the world would return to normal after the end of the election, expecting real life to behave like a season finale.
It didn’t work out that way. The Trump train moves on, dominating the news cycle daily, his tweets seemingly overshadowing every other important event. He is a glittering golden goose for late night comedians; Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, and Seth Meyers have seen their ratings skyrocket ever since he announced his intention to run.
Parody is a powerful weapon, and laughter gets us through stormy times that lack a silver lining. But it also encourages misconceptions, and simplifies real-life events to a dangerous degree. The animated short that depicts Trump as humiliated and vengeful after the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner is a narrative believed and pushed by many.
It’s a silly oversimplification; Trump has been talking about running for president for decades. Choosing to believe that he made the decision after hearing a couple of snappy one-liners is writing him off as a living joke.
I couldn’t care less about the scandals that constantly surround Trump and his cronies. But I do care about his withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, and his steadfast refusal to acknowledge climate change as a serious threat.
Unlike the impulsive tweeting and the poorly-worded public statements, it isn’t funny in the slightest. Rather, it is a terrifyingly reckless decision that will affect every single living creature on this planet for generations to come.
It is not surprising that Stephen Colbert is taking the opportunity to profit from this headline-factory of a President. But there is a point where we risk treating an incredibly dangerous situation as nothing more than a good punchline.
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