Just watching Veep, series 1, episode 4. Selina Meyer, the VP, is worried that Gov. Danny Chung, a Chinese-American war hero, might replace her as VP. She has a Trumpian hot-mic disaster after an interview, making an unwise comment that he isn't even an American. When the news breaks while she attends a hospital after a disaster, she finds rednecks start praising her for telling it like it is, that this is America, not China. After they stuff up with a vital Senator who withdraws support for her pet Bill for filibuster reform, they have to suck up to senators from the Border Caucus who want harsh laws to deal with undocumented Mexicans, even though Meyer is in favour of allowing them to stay. Her aides meet with a couple of senators who complain that Mexicans are bad neighbours who come into your garden at night to crap a butt-full of drugs and beans on your flowers and that's why they need a 3000 mile border fence. They say that will be great for the construction industry to which one of the aides responds that the only way to afford it would be to bring in immigrant workmen. The other aide says they should be able to find a way to preserve the American identity and the senators rejoice. The aides promise that Meyer will oppose immunity for any illegal immigrants who have been in the US more than 5 years and endorse the Border Caucus's position. Meyer's boyfriend jokes that she should sneak in to visit him because his Asian neighbours don't like her.
Wow! This was in 2012 and predicted Trump 3 years later. Yes, he'd gone full birther by then but the immigration issue and the excitement of rednecks thinking that Trump tells it like it is was totally nailed.
Wow! This was in 2012 and predicted Trump 3 years later. Yes, he'd gone full birther by then but the immigration issue and the excitement of rednecks thinking that Trump tells it like it is was totally nailed.