A New Era of Trump Comedy Begins

Angelica Gajewski ’26

Staff Writer

I can anticipate that my counterparts at the Tripod will write scorching analyses focusing on Donald Trump’s win and The Democrats’ pitfalls. In fact, I can confidently predict that there are likely multiple articles concerning the future of abortion rights, the death of democracy, and the word “unprecedented” sprawled across the pages that precede this one. Contrastingly, in this section, we’re not huge fans of facts, and actually, we love to fearmonger and lie. In that way, I am largely inspired by this election cycle. Still, it has caused me to reflect on my own comedy as I prepare, like so many others, to be subject to a far too familiar kind of jestering: the kind in which decency and empathy becomes counter-cultural and we are forced to engage in a more sophisticated comedy (booo).

As the only person that consistently writes sweet nothings to Bits and Pieces, I resonate and often think about the Yik Yak posts about the wokeness of the Tripod. I too sometimes wish we could air all of our grievances out without thinking deeply about the impacts, but I’m afraid we’d then run the risk of being elected the 47th president of the United States. Still, not only is it okay for unemployed people with X accounts across the country to make fun of those in power, moreover, it is our duty. So the next time you get upset with woke jabs at Trump featured in Bits and Pieces, you can choose to accept one of three realities:

1. The outcome of this election means that drama, outrage, and comedy are falling into our laps, and we now get to be less creative. 

2. When those of us who love stupid sex and fart jokes start to reference the respectability of a president as a source of comedy, it might be time to reevaluate the pick. 

Or

3. Me, and every other comic that poke fun at Trump are bought out by Big Comedy.

(just over fifty percent of voting Americans will go with that last one)