(Note: About 3:25 into the video, my sea lion friend disappears for a sec, but he’s back in like 30 seconds. And sorry about the lack of sound, but the zoo had music playing in the background and YT wasn’t happy with that. Pretty much the entire video is me saying “good boy!”)

Here’s the video I shot of my visit, with a much longer explanation below.

I’ve been going to this zoo for thirty years, and never realized this until now. The zoo is great, if you ever go to DC — definitely one of the best in the US. And it has this neat underground viewing area, a bit hidden, where you can watch the seals swimming underwater from behind a huge plexiglass. Until this week, I thought the sea lions simply swam by quickly and that was that. Well, apparently, if you get the right sea lion, he likes to play virtual fetch with a stick, just like a dog! I discovered this yesterday afternoon, and spent nearly two hours playing with this one sea lion. I decided to go back today to try to shoot some video of our play time, and that’s what you’re watching here. It was one of the most amazing zoo, and animal, experiences of my life.

We first saw the sea lion yesterday when one of the zoo visitors was running his finger along the plexiglass, and the sea lion was following it and then doing flips when the man swirled his finger. That was pretty cool, all by itself. But after a while, the sea lion stopped following our fingers, and instead kept, seemingly, pointing at a stick on the ground on our side of the plexiglass. We thought the sea lion thought the stick was a treat — and that he was expecting some kind of reward for twirling in the water for us. After a while, we picked up the stick and showed it to him, and the sea lion followed the hand with the stick, so that’s definitely what he wanted. But the sea lion didn’t think the stick was a treat, he thought it was a toy — and kept jabbing his nose at it, like he wanted us to do something with it. I don’t know what possessed us, but somehow someone got the idea to throw the stick, and what do you know, the sea lion chased it and then did a somersault every time he got to the stick. (Also amazing, it was really dark in there by closing time, and the seal still found the stick every time.)

So, apparently, the sea lion wanted to play fetch and, amazingly, somehow communicated that to us. This five-minute video is me going back to the zoo today to have a bit more playtime with that one sea lion. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. JOHN

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I never laughed so hard in all my life. Carrie is hilarious, and brilliant, and insane.

My then-blogging-partner-in-crime Joe Sudbay and I met Carrie at her car in the parking lot behind DC’s Lincoln Theater. Carrie said hi, then threw glitter dust all over the both of us. We were covered in the stuff. She acted like it was totally normal. That was Carrie.

So we went with her to her dressing room, and talked for like 20 minutes before the actual on-tape interview. Oh how I wish I had taped that part. Carrie was brilliant, and quite serious, when talking about politics. She almost seemed as if she was being extra-careful NOT to be frivolous in discussing the upcoming 2018 election.

But she was hysterical in the pre-game before we taped, talking about the time she dated then- Senator Chris Dodd, and he took her to the Kennedy compound in Massachusetts for the weekend, and the Kennedy’s ridiculed her mercilessly (referring her to a floozy, in essence). Well, anyone who’s met Carrie knows that you take her on at your own peril. In the middle of a church, after one Kennedy had made one floozy joke too far, she responded, loudly, with a joke about Chappaquiddick.

Oh my god, I said, what did they do? She responded, the entire room erupted into laughter.

The interview itself, in the video below, was more serious. Carrie began by smearing more glitter on Joe’s face (photo to the right). Two parts, however, were lighter, so to speak. In one, Carrie talks about President George W. Bush’s little-known superpower (he can fart on command), and then she went off on Sarah Palin, calling her the c-word. I’m pretty sure Carrie had made the same comment before the show, and we had told her that she can’t say that on tape, especially only six weeks or so before the election — we didn’t want to divert attention from all the bad press Palin was getting. But Carrie being Carrie, she said it anyway. (I did bleep it in the video I posted on YouTube at the time, but still have the original, and will post it when I get back to DC where my copy resides.)

I’d have loved to have had her on our UnPresidented Podcast. What a gem. Here’s my 2008 interview:

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We do a minimum of two episodes per week. Half are open to everyone, and half are subscriber-only. We’re asking for a minimum subscription of $5/month, which is standard for most podcasts.

You can check out the free episodes on iTunes, Patreon, SoundCloud, Google Play and many other services. And you can subscribe to our premium episodes on Patreon.

What would be a great help in addition to signing up for the premium episodes is also subscribing to the podcast on iTunes, and then rating/reviewing it. If we get enough subscriptions and ratings/reviews in the first few weeks, iTunes may feature us in their “New & Noteworthy” section, which would be a huge boost. We have 32 ratings as of this writing, so your additional rating would be HUGELY important and helpful. Thanks.

Now, if you know my politics, Cliff’s are no different. We are proud Democrats who are also proud progressives — we’re here to fight the right, but we never shy away from taking our party to task when needed. At UnPresidented we believe that whatever our differences on the left, the way to win on the issues we care about, from immigration to civil rights, health care and climate, is for all of us to come together and resist Donald Trump.

We already have at least 8 free episodes up, and one premium, so there’s ample for you to check out for free. Here’s a list of our first 9:

Thanks as always for your support. Progressivism activism is what I do for a living. So your donations matter — they literally finance my work. So thank you for your continued support. I really do appreciate it.

JOHN

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As always, definitely worth a watch:

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You can thank me now.

I cannot stress enough how important it is you watch this gorilla bathe-dancing to maniac. By @bobhagh pic.twitter.com/e15f9NPO7j

— Kristina Lucare????i (@KristinaLuca) June 22, 2017

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For example: “King Lear” would be “King Leer.”

I also added the hashtag: #ShakespeareInTheTrump

Things went viral pretty fast, and I got a TON of great responses. I’ll share some of the best below.

First off, as some background, this all got started because a NYC theater troupe was doing a production of “Julius Caesar” in Central Park, but with a twist. The lead character of Caesar is dressed and portrayed Trump-like. Far-right protesters, led by a Pizzagate conspiracy promoter, disrupted the show in outrage, not fully realizing that Caesar’s death in the play is hardly portrayed as a good thing. Quite the contrary, in fact.

It wasn’t lost on liberals that Trump supporters were outraged that the cast of “Hamilton” simply spoke politely to Vice President Pence following a show several months ago. Yet, their shutting down an entire production is acceptable.

Also, Trump supporters keep saying “what if someone did this to Obama!” In fact, they did back in 2012, and you probably never heard about it because no one cared.

Back to Shakespeare in the Trump. Here are a sampling of the tweets. People really stepped up on this one:

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Feel free to add your own!

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For some reason, Denny’s tweeted yesterday that people were wishing the diner-ish restaurant chain a happy Father’s Day.

Denny responded by tweeting that it was a restaurant, not a dad.

Then people started responding back. And it was good twitter, rather than bad twitter, that held the day. The responses are pretty funny.

Enjoy.

You can check out the rest of the comments here.

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100% of the proceeds go to AMERICAblog’s Fight Trump project; and we have great margins on these products, so a large portion of your purchase goes directly to support our independent journalism. And the more you buy, the better our margins!

We have three designs:

1. Illegitimate

Our top-selling design, available in a t-shirt only, is the dictionary definition of the word “Illegitimate.” But with a twist. The first definition is “not valid or defensible.” The second definition is a silhouette of Donald Trump’s face.

As you know, Hillary Clinton received nearly 3 million more votes than Donald Trump. Which means Trump has no mandate. And now that we know the Russians helped get Trump elected, he is not a legitimate president either. Thus the message of this t-shirt.

Here are the colors we offer: white, black, navy (not shown below), red, grey and brown. (Our best seller is the black version.)

2. Trump-Putin

This design plays off of the ongoing controversy over Trump’s mysterious ties to the Russians and his inexplicable support for Russian foreign policy, such as the dissolution of NATO and the annexation of Ukrainian Crimea. We have Trump-Putin t-shirts and hats in a variety of colors. The design is a direct parody of the Trump-Pence logo.

Here are our Trump-Putin shirt colors: white, navy, red, grey and black.

And here are our Trump-Putin hat styles: red, navy and grey.

3. Putin-Trump

Our third and final design for this campaign, created as a result of popular demand, is a “Putin-Trump” t-shirt. Several people felt that they’d prefer to have Putin on top, so this t-shirt does just that. Putin-Trump shirts come in white, black, red, grey and navy.

Thanks as always. Your support is critical for our ongoing work fighting the Trump agenda.

And don’t forget to sign up for our email newsletter and action list. You can sign up for it here. The more subscribers, the more powerful we are.

Thanks as always for your support, and have a great weekend. JOHN

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We’re starting with 2 designs. First, a Trump-Putin logo that mocks the official Trump-Pence logo. And second, a t-shirt with the definition of “illegitimate” on it, showing Trump’s face as the second definition.

Trump-Putin come in a hat and t-shirt, while “illegitimate” is only t-shirts. There are various colors and sizes of each.

And the best part, all profits go to AMERICAblog, and Booster has really good margins and good products, so you can actually help us out a lot by buying these products.

Here are the three we’re starting with.

“Trump-Putin” hat, in red, navy, and grey options:

“Illegitimate” in white, black, navy, grey, red, and brown:

And “Trump-Putin t-shirts” in white, black, navy, grey, and red:

Again, all proceeds go to support our work here at AMERICAblog. This current campaign runs for two weeks (the orders are filled after the campaign is over, thus permitting us to get better margins in bulk). If this goes well, we’ll be running more of these campaigns throughout the year with other designs.

Thanks so much, and please do buy some products, support our work, and stick your thumb in Trump’s eye :)

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The effect is marvelous.

Enjoy.

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But then, a surprise. Michelle walked on to the stage and greeted them personally.

I got to meet Michelle Obama, very briefly, on three visits to the White House. Even in a brief hello, the woman exudes charm, wit, beauty, charisma. She has that gift that only certain politicians have — that personality bubble that pushes out ten feet from them. Her husband doesn’t have it, she does.

This video is pure Michelle. Watch, smile, enjoy.

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Chiron Beta Prime

This year has been a little crazy for the Andersons.
You may recall we had some trouble last year.
The robot council had us banished to an asteroid.
That hasn’t undermined our holiday cheer.
And we know it’s almost Christmas by the marks we make on the wall.
That’s our favorite time of year.

Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime,
Where we’re working in a mine for our robot overlords.
Did I say overlords? I meant protectors.
Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime.

On every corner there’s a giant metal Santa Claus, who watches over us with glowing red eyes.
They carry weapons and they know if you’ve been bad or good.
Not everybody’s good but everyone tries.
And the rocks outside the airlock exude ammonia-scented snow.
It’s like a Winter Wonderland.

(They tried to decorate and make it look more Christmassy, but what they did was more like Christmas in hell.
They nailed a Santa to a cross in front of everyone,
It wasn’t pleasant but I’m sure they meant well.
And the rocks outside the airlock exude ammonia-scented snow.
It’s like a Winter Wonderland.)

Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime,
Where we’re working in a mine for our robot overlords.
Did I say overlords? I meant protectors.
Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime.

That’s all the family news that we’re allowed to talk about.
We really hope you’ll come and visit us soon.
I mean we’re literally begging you to visit us.
And make it quick before they [MESSAGE REDACTED].
Now it’s time for Christmas dinner – I think the robots sent us a pie!
You know I love my soylent green.

Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime,
Where we’re working in a mine for our robot overlords.
Did I say overlords? I meant protectors.
Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime.
Note: lyrics in parentheses are from the alternate version of the song.

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Now we know.

Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane reimagines the now-infamous Trump-on-a-bus video with Peter Griffin present on the bus.

I have to share two of the clips:

Watch the video, it’s great:

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I am asking you today to support me over the next three months, from now until the election, in a campaign to utterly destroy Donald Trump’s candidacy, send Hillary Clinton to the White House, and help elect a progressive majority to Congress.

You can contribute with a credit card via this page, via the large convenient form below, or by sending a check made out to “John Aravosis” to my PO Box:

John Aravosis
PO Box 1532
Long Island City, NY 11101-9998

I am asking you to help me raise a minimum of $25,000 for the next three months. The more we raise, the more we can do — including creating hard-hitting pop-up Web sites and viral graphics, buying online ads, making my Facebook Live broadcasts more professional, and also bringing more people on board this campaign.

In a nutshell, I am an activist for hire. Hire me.

I’m going to place the donation form below, for those who already know of my 25 year commitment to progressive advocacy, and don’t need any more convincing. But after the form, please keep reading, as I’ve written a long description of the work I’ve done over the years for progressive causes, and an explanation of why I think I’m uniquely qualified for this mission to take on Donald Trump.

And finally, a quick word about donations. First, they’re not tax-deductible, sorry. Second, you can make a one-time donation, or a recurring donation each month — meaning, you can give, say, $25 once or $25 per month. It’s up to you, just click the appropriate button.

Now, I will make one extraordinary request to those who can afford it. There are some people of means who every election donate the maximum to their candidate of choice. That means they give $2,700 during the primaries, and another $2,700 during the general election. I’d like to ask those people to consider maxing out to me as well. Hillary has already raised nearly $700 million this campaign. And that’s great. But think of what I can accomplish with a mere $25,000 — or, if people are really generous, $50,000. This election is exceptional, so I am making an exceptional request. Thank you. (And don’t forget to read the rest of this post, below the fundraising form.)

First, a word about polls

First, let’s have a word about the polls. I know some people might think, “hey, Hillary is so far ahead of Donald Trump in the polls, we’ve already won this!” I disagree. We’re still nearly three months from the election, and a lot can change between now and then — and historically, it has. Candidates who were doing great right after the convention, lost. And candidates who were written off after the convention, eventually won in November.

We simply cannot assume that we’re going to win in November. That’s a recipe for an upset victory for the other guy. We need to pull out all the stops to not only beat Donald Trump, but to utterly destroy his candidacy and everything it stands for. (It’s just as important to repudiate the hate and intolerance surrounding Trump’s candidacy, as the candidate himself.) We need to beat Trump so badly that a tsunami of support for Hillary Clinton sweeps a progressive majority into both houses of Congress. In fact, GOP control of the Senate is already looking in danger. If we play our cards right, we could get control of the White House, the Senate and the US House. But we can’t be complacent, or we could still lose this.

Please donate to my campaign.

I’ve been a uniquely effective progressive advocate for over 20 years

As many of you know, I created AMERICAblog in 2004 because I could no longer sit back and watch George Bush destroy our country. In less than a year, with the help of Jeff Gannon, AMERICAblog became one of the country’s most influential political blogs, called recommended reading by Mother Jones and the NYT.

By 2004 when AMERICAblog launched, I had already been a vocal LGBT rights advocate for over a decade. I began my LGBT rights advocacy in 1993, working with Senator Kennedy’s office fighting the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and then a year later helping them prepare the ENDA hearings. But I was itching to do more.

A few years later, in 1998, I created a Web site, Mathew Shepard Online Resources, credited with helping the Matthew Shepard story go viral, and with organizing over 70 candlelight vigils nationwide. My subsequent LGBT rights work earned me a place in the Out 100 and the Advocate 50 (rankings of the most influential LGBT people in America).

That was the beginning of a long string of successful progressive viral advocacy campaigns that I launched with little to no funding, simply relying on the charity of my friends and my innate ability to tap into the Internet to stir up trouble for the greater good.

Since that time, I have taken on and beaten everyone from big business to big politics. My successful advocacy targets have included America Online, Microsoft, Ford Motor Company, Merriam-Webster, Barilla Pasta, Mars Inc., BP, Dr. Laura, the Department of Defense, Jeff Gannon, George Bush and Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, and Russian President Putin.

Here’s a small sampling of the successful online advocacy campaigns I’ve worked on:

We made your cell phone more secure

It used to be legal in America for anyone to buy your cell phone records online. I took that story, that no one wanted to report on, and made it explode. The day my story published, three of the four national networks covered it. After months of outrage, Congress passed a bill making the practice illegal, and President Bush signed it into law. As a result, it is no longer legal in America for someone to buy your cell phone records online.

We caught BP lying during the Gulf spill

At the height of the BP oil spill, I exposed the fact that BP was lying on its Web site about its spill response, and the story went viral.

We caught the Obama administration preparing to defend DOMA

AMERICAblog broke the huge story that the Obama administration was planning to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court. Our two-year campaign on this issue resulted in President Obama changing his mind, and opposing DOMA in court.

We broke the story of Pres. Obama “evolving” on marriage equality

In an interview with AMERICAblog’s then-deputy Joe Sudbay, President Obama revealed that he was “evolving” on the issue of marriage equality. Sudbay’s interview was so impassioned that it struck a chord with the President; as was evidenced a few weeks later when Obama cornered Sudbay at the White House Holiday party and read him the riot act. When a blog can get the attention of the President of the United States, it is worth supporting.

What about ads, you might ask?

While we do run ads on AMERICAblog, they don’t raise much revenue, and haven’t since the economy crashed in 2008. Ad revenue covers less than 20% of my monthly expenses. Up until now, I’ve made up the difference through my online marketing consulting work. But there’s a fly in the ointment: When I consult, I don’t have time to blog or do much activism. That’s why I’m now asking for your help.

There’s also a third option: Working for an organization. And I tried that last year. I was fortunate enough to get a full-time staff job at the United Nations in New York City. As an international civil servant, I had more pay and benefits than I ever dreamed of. But the job came with a catch: I wasn’t permitted to blog, or tweet, or do anything else related to politics. And I found over my year at the UN that I not only missed politics, but I missed making a difference on issues that really mattered. That’s why I ultimately left the UN, and returned to blogging and politics.

Even if my income and retirement are both now less secure, I’m happier than I’ve been in years. I’m back to helping people, and hopefully making a difference for my country and the world — and that’s all that’s mattered. But advocacy and good deeds don’t pay the bills. That’s why I need your support.

Why support me in particular?

Part of what makes me such a uniquely effective advocate is that I’ve been working in national politics for over 25 years, and in online advocacy for over 20.

I actually coined the phrase “cyber-disobedience” in 1995, shortly after I began working at the Children’s Defense Fund (the nation’s premier child poverty fighting organization). As soon as I got to CDF, I immediately recognized the potential for using the Internet to build communities of like-minded individuals whose collective voice could influence government and business. I built a huge online child advocacy network at CDF, and then helped other progressive clients like Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, AFSCME, AIDS Action, and Amnesty USA strengthen their own Internet advocacy.

What also makes me an effective advocate is my experience: In addition to my background in politics, I’m also a lawyer and professional journalist. I have a joint law degree and masters in foreign service from Georgetown, and have worked as a stringer for the Economist, among other writing jobs. I’ve also worked in the US Senate, at the World Bank, and at the United Nations. I bring a lot of diverse experience to my advocacy work, and that’s one of the reasons I’m so good at what I do.

Here’s the thing about being an effective advocate. I’ve learned over the years that it’s not enough to care, and it’s not enough to be angry — though both are important. In order to be effective, you have to know how to work the system in order to make positive change. And I have proven time and again that I am one of the best at doing just that.

Won’t you please support my campaign to defeat Donald Trump?

Between now and November, I will work tirelessly to defeat Donald Trump, put Hillary Clinton in the White House, and help elect a progressive majority to the US Senate and US House. But I need your help to do it. The only way I can continue campaigning against Trump is with your support.

Over the years, your support has helped me do so much good already.

We raised over $300,000 for progressive candidates and causes over the years.

But we also raised $5,400 to help US troops buy body armor in Iraq.

And we raised thousands (I want to say it was $13,000) to support a single mom in the south who was fired from her organ-playing job at the church because they found out that after-hours she also played the piano at a gay cocktail lounge. You guys stepped up and we helped her out, in a big way.

And often our advocacy wasn’t about money at all. Sometimes it was about simply having someone there to fight for your right to visit your partner in the hospital.

And other times it was about exposing bullies. We were at the forefront of exposing Vladimir Putin’s homophobia in Russia, highlighting the abhorrent state-sanctioned kidnappings of LGBT Russians, and working to get Russian assets banned from state pension funds in the US. And we, along with Dan Savage, Queer Nation NY and a few other friends, led the Russian vodka boycott that made Russia’s homophobic human rights abuses international news.

And sometimes our work is about education. We took the lead in educating Americans, and the world, about the Salvation Army’s ongoing homophobia.

And when few were paying attention, we led the battle to defend the rights of gay and trans people in Tennessee when Republicans in that state wanted to rescind their civil rights.

Won’t you help me take down Donald Trump

Between now and the election, with your support, I will give my all to make sure Donald Trump loses on November 8, and a progressive majority takes over the Congress.

Your support will make it possible for us to publish more of the hard-hitting reporting you’ve known us for over the years. And your support will help us promote the most damning stories using Facebook ads and other online advertising.

And as part of this campaign, I promise a much amplified social media presence over the next three months. Twitter has become an increasingly important way of crafting the political debate. And I’m fortunate enough to have some 80,000 Twitter followers between my various accounts, and they include a large number of influential followers in politics and the media. This gives me a unique ability to influence the debate. (One of my recent tweets criticizing Trump has been shared nearly 8,000 times.)

And finally, between now and November 8, I will do a Facebook Live broadcast every weekday (and sometimes on weekends, if there’s news), providing my daily analysis of the election. (You can watch some of my recent broadcasts here and here and here and here.)

One of the things that always made AMERICAblog great was that we brought to our work a deep understanding of politics. Unlike any other blog at the time, we had actually worked in Washington, DC for some of the most influential people in town. And that gave us an insight into not only the news of the day, but it also gave us a unique perspective on how to create change. I believe it’s one of the key reasons we’re so effective at what we do.

Over the past 25 years I have proven that I am good at what I do, and in fact, better than most. I am a committed progressive and LGBT advocate who is not only fearless in speaking truth to power, but who knows how to win. And I do.

Won’t you please support my work, support this campaign. Let’s make AMERICAblog great again, and teach Donald Trump and the Republicans a lesson they’re never going to forget.

I’m going to close with that wonderful Margaret Mead quote that we used a lot while working at the Children’s Defense Fund. It’s become a mainstay of my work, because after all these years, it’s still so true.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead.

You can donate to the campaign via the form above, or on this page. Thank you so much for your ongoing support, JOHN.

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You saw it here first.

Sorry, but we’ve had a lot of Russian trolls, from Russian troll farms, in the blog comments today, so it seemed like a good time to brush the dust off of Boris & Natasha.

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Enjoy.

A video posted by @Midnight (@atmidnightcc) on Jul 28, 2016 at 11:39am PDT

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You will thank me for this.

Make sure to share it with your friends. Or enemies.

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This is a video from Jerwyn Guintu. He walked around LGBT Pride in NYC last week and asked people what it’s like to be LGBT (or LGBTQ, as he put it).

It’s really nice, I think you’ll enjoy it.

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It’s difficult to tell if the video is pro- or anti- Trump, but I’m guessing the world blowing up in the final scene gives us a clue.

Enjoy.

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I was laughing out loud.

Just watch.

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