Regardless of what you think of his politics, Donald Trump has one guaranteed group of followers – those who make their living poking fun at politicians. While his impact on the arts is negligible (he did use $20,000 from his charity foundation to buy a life-size portrait of himself), his unscripted outbursts, unpredictable antics and terrifying truth-bending have provided a wellspring of material for political cartoonists, satirists and comedians.
The only problem is that some satirists say that the current political reality is almost more entertaining than anything they could invent. Director Armando Iannucci, who created hit series Veep, told CNN that the US presidential campaign and Brexit have made politics far more entertaining than any fiction could be. ‘If we plotted a lot of these lines in fiction we’d be told we had barely credible story lines,’ he said.
