PresidentDonald Trump‘s 2020 re-election campaignhas been the butt of jokesacross the internet in recent days after bizarre attempts to defend his record, includingediting his head onto a teenage girl’s bodyon the cover of TIME.
Someone who isn’t laughing? The Joker himself — aka Trump’s latest booster.
In a Batman comic released last week,Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child, the supervillain is shown campaigning for a hateful governor (and clear Trump stand-in) who’s running for re-election with the aid of an antagonist group.
What’s more, while Trump isn’t specifically named in the comic book, the stocky, blond-headed politician in the story has a range of similarities — from his direct likeness to the tone and pattern of his speech.
“It’s going to be beautiful! You’re gonna love it! You’re gonna love every inch of it!” the character exclaims in one speech. “I’m talking streets so safe you can let your kids go play and not even think about ’em!”
The Joker is also depicted wearing an American flag jacket that reads “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” — a not-so-subtle reference to thecontroversial jacketFirst LadyMelania Trumpwore when visiting migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border last year.
Mrs. Trump’s jacket had the same text across the back.
The new Batman comic features a Trump-like character running for re-election.Rafael Grampa/DC
Rafael Grampa/DC
Last week, the Trump re-election campaign saw several of its mocking tweets boomerang back ineffectively.
In the first, the campaign account tweeted out an edited clip from Marvel’sAvengers: Endgamethat confusingly depicted President Trump as the mass-murdering antagonist Thanos, this time facing off with Democratic lawmakers.
Twitter quickly piled on with jeers, with one user bluntlyresponding: “great meme, idiots.”
Darkseid (top) recruits Joker (bottom) to help re-elect a Trump-like politician in a newly released Batman comic.Rafael Grampa/DC
The Joker, who is helping campaign for the Trump character, is considered one of Darkseid’s “agents of chaos” and is shown among Trump’s red campaign hats and red, white and blue campaign posters depicting the politician.
In one scene, protestors are shown flooding the streets and holding up signs with pictures of the Trump character that read “NO MORE HATE.”
The real-life President Trump is reportedly a fan of the fictional Joker character, or at least one version of him.
Trumphosted a screeningof the recent Joaquin Phoenix-starringJokerat the White House in November and “liked the film,” according to CNN.
source: people.com
