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What clip best sums up the Trump era? An old Mitchell and Webb sketch about WW2

Politicians and media figures are starting to let their roots show, and this meme is about them

Every era gets the art it deserves. So Reaganism got Top Gun, in all its shallow, flashy and unexpectedly enduring glory. The Clinton era produced Jerry Maguire, a movie that seemed so smart in its time, but now just looks platitudinous, yet I find myself falling for its shallow charms again every time it’s on TV. Similarly, Blair had Damien Hirst and Oasis, all of whom seemed seminal in their time, but now just look embarrassingly of their time. The Bush era produced the first of Michael Bay’s Transformers, a crazy mess, the reverberations from which American cinema is still suffering.

Clearly Obama, the sui generis politician, produced the sui generis show, Hamilton, a glorious celebration of multicultural America, and one so good that the first thing Trump did after being elected president was attempt to go to war with it: soon after the 2016 election, the audience at the Broadway show booed the newly elected vice-president, who was in the audience. “Apologize!” tweeted the enraged president. Spoiler: the show did not apologise. I always enjoy it when Trump talks about how he’s going to triumph over this foreign or that far-flung country. It’s like, dude, you couldn’t even get the better of a musical in your own hometown.

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