After an eight-year break, our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the entertainment industry are getting back to one of their favorite themes: fantasies about Republican presidents getting dead.
Back in 2006, a mockumentary called Death of a President depicted the assassination of George W. Bush. A couple of years before that, a novel called Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker consisted of conversations between two characters as they decide whether to assassinate Bush. Hell, even comic books got into the act. In a 2007 series called Black Summer, a near-omnipotent superhero named John Horus saves the world by — you guessed it — assassinating George Bush.
That’s because liberals are the good guys!
It wasn’t cool to depict such things when Obama was president, obviously, but now the trend is making a comeback. Alexa Moutevelis Coombs, Newsbusters:
In its newest episode, “Got Milk?” Fox’s post-apocalyptic comedy Last Man On Earth gave viewers a flashback to the time when the pandemic that has wiped out most of earth was just starting – and the show seemingly takes great delight in the current cabinet of Republicans dying in office…
What happened to President Trump? They never say. Then we see a funeral procession for Pence and everyone else in the presidential line of succession as they all die from the virus: Paul Ryan, Rex Tillerson, Steve Mnuchin, Jeff Sessions, and Betsy DeVos.
Here’s the clip, with Kristen Wiig from the hit comedy Ghostbusters cast against type as a rich old white lady:
Get it? Did you get the funny joke?
Of course, this amusing little premise assumes that Mike Pence will be the next president. Apparently it’s not made clear in the episode, set sometime in the near future, whether Pence was elected or took over for Trump.
I hope Hollywood hasn’t given up on the Democrats ever winning another election. Come on, guys. I know you’re depressed, but it’s not the end of the world!