THE SECRET TO PARODYING DONALD TRUMP as comedian Sarah Cooper's hugely popular homemade online videos prove, is simply to let the president do all the talking. When Trump said on April 30 that the country's "death totals" were "very, very strong," Cooper reen-acted that on TikTok from her Brooklyn apartment, miming to an audio track of Trump's exact words, while pointing to a whiteboard with an ascending line labeled "Death Totals." In late April, Trump commented that disinfectant could knock coro-navirus out "in a minute." Cooper acted that out deadpan too, pointing a spray bottle of household cleaner at her arm and face. And on May 21, when Trump told a reporter that he had "tested positively toward negative," Cooper pantomimed the president's attempt to clarify, her expression toggling rapidly from certainty to confusion and then back again.
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