‘Triumph’s Summer Election Special Shows The Truly Horrifying Part of The Presidential Election
There’s a bit in Triumph’s Summer Election Special 2016, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s new special for Hulu, where a focus group of real Donald Trump supporters watch what they believe are TV ads being tested by Trump’s campaign.
The ads are fake, created by Robert Smigel, Triumph’s inventor and voice, and his team of comedy writers. But the response to them is more scary than funny.
One of the ads, which are voiced by a Trump impersonator, mentions that Trump’s infamous wall with Mexico will take time to build. In the interim, “Trump” suggests putting up an invisible electric fence, and placing “shock collars” around the necks of all 150 million Mexicans by putting “bling” inside them.
Put aside, for a moment, the idea’s remarkable leaps of logic, including the notion of building an “invisible” anything, or the concept that since one huge project will take time, they should build an equally huge, but more unfathomable project as a stop-gap measure.
The Trump supporters discuss this with utmost seriousness. One brings up the challenge of getting all of Mexico to wear the collars, but her objections are practical. How would you get people to wear them? Another woman mentions that if the Mexicans know there’s “bling” inside, they’ll simply break the collars and sell them. Another wonders if collars are needed for the fence. The first woman assures her it’s the only way to make it doable.
One of the women gets creative and suggests a vaccine. The moderator asks how this would work. “They wouldn’t know,” the woman says with a sheepish laugh, as if she just suggested playing a harmless prank on a friend. “They’d think they were getting vaccinated for something [else],” she says.
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