{"id":51014,"date":"2016-06-25T07:31:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T07:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51014"},"modified":"2016-06-25T07:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T07:31:45","slug":"donald-trump-and-his-trumpalike-the-denald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51014","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump and his Trumpalike, The Denald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; reality imitates parody, a subset of life imitates art ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Denald Trump<\/strong> account posted this fake trumpery as satire:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow! Just arrived in Scotland. Everyone is screaming &quot;LEAVE! LEAVE! LEAVE!&quot; Must be excitement over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Brexit?src=hash\">#Brexit<\/a>. Happy to be here!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DonaId J. Trump (@realDenaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDenaldTrump\/status\/746193974155587585\">June 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This tweet was quickly followed by an all-too-similar one from the real <strong>Donald<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/746272130992644096\">June 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8212; the only problem here being that the Scots voted to stay..<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>And now the coup de grace &#8212; <strong>Obama <\/strong>speechwriter <strong>Jon Favreau<\/strong>&#8216;s eye catches the match between parody and reality in these two quotes &#8212; and tweets them in juxtaposition, <strong>DoubleTweet<\/strong>-style:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The parody account, and a few hours later, the real thing. <\/p>\n<p>Definitely living in a simulation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9aafLcIiiG\">pic.twitter.com\/9aafLcIiiG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonfavs\/status\/746383351733379073\">June 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; with the added bonus of a playful sideswipe at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/simulation.html\">Bostrom<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/the-video-game-that-made-elon-musk-question-whether-our-reality-is-a-simulation\/\">Musk<\/a> simulation idea..<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>It seems there really were Scots shouting at Trump to leave &#8212; he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2016\/01\/map-scotland-ban-donald-trump\/424758\/\">not well-liked over there<\/a> &#8212; so was he the one who was being ultimately playful and ironic &#8212; deliberately misunderstanding them for the purpose of his tweet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; reality imitates parody, a subset of life imitates art ] . The Denald Trump account posted this fake trumpery as satire: Wow! Just arrived in Scotland. Everyone is screaming &quot;LEAVE! LEAVE! LEAVE!&quot; Must be excitement over #Brexit. Happy to be here! &mdash; DonaId J. Trump (@realDenaldTrump) June 24, 2016 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378,53,526,1314,371,1003,743,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit","category-britain","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-humor","category-irony","category-simulation","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51014"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51020,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51014\/revisions\/51020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}