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10/31/20

The US Presidency: Donald Trump as Julius Caesar: The Curtain Raiser - by Brent Ranalli

In the summer of 2017, New Yorkers were treated to a Shakespeare in the Park production that depicted a Julius Caesar modeled on President Donald Trump. There he was, with business suit, blond hair, oversized red tie and bronzer, tweeting from a golden bathtub.

Right-wing news outlets sprang into full outrage mode. Indignantly, the National Review presumed a double standard and deplored it. Imagine, it argued the “actual protests and actual rioting if this or any other major New York play gleefully depicted the stabbing murder of Barack Obama.”

Read more at: Donald Trump as Julius Caesar: The Curtain Raiser - The Globalist

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