Donald Trump and his Trumpalike, The Denald

[ by Charles Cameron — reality imitates parody, a subset of life imitates art ]

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The Denald Trump account posted this fake trumpery as satire:

Wow! Just arrived in Scotland. Everyone is screaming "LEAVE! LEAVE! LEAVE!" Must be excitement over #Brexit. Happy to be here!

— DonaId J. Trump (@realDenaldTrump) June 24, 2016

This tweet was quickly followed by an all-too-similar one from the real Donald:

Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2016

— the only problem here being that the Scots voted to stay..

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And now the coup de grace — Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau‘s eye catches the match between parody and reality in these two quotes — and tweets them in juxtaposition, DoubleTweet-style:

The parody account, and a few hours later, the real thing.

Definitely living in a simulation. pic.twitter.com/9aafLcIiiG

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 24, 2016

— with the added bonus of a playful sideswipe at the Bostrom / Musk simulation idea..

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It seems there really were Scots shouting at Trump to leave — he’s not well-liked over there — so was he the one who was being ultimately playful and ironic — deliberately misunderstanding them for the purpose of his tweet?