2016 was a huge year for pop culture critiques of the American political system, but it was also a bigger year for voters who didn’t give a solitary shit about what Saturday Night Live or John Oliver had to say about Donald Trump.
That is to say every entertainment tie-in imaginable failed to stop the American people from electing the most unqualified person to ever run for President. When you’re faced with a quasi-fascist imbecile leading the USA, snarky laughs only go so far.
With that in mind, Mark Hamill reading out Trump’s tweets as The Joker – a role Hamill has perfected over years in the Batman animated series – won’t do much to help the problem. Still, Trump’s missives carried on Hamill’s malevolent tones can be appreciated as a harmless but impressive distraction from the American shitshow:
The Trumpster quote #1#ANewJeersToast https://t.co/qZQEGU18r6
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) January 8, 2017
Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2016
There are definitely tinges of voice actor Billy West reading out Trump’s tweets as Futurama‘s Zapp Brannigan here, and to be honest, that whole buffoon-in-chief schtick might fit Trump a lil’ better. We’re not going to knock Hamill’s slightly more evil interpretation, though – even if it is totally futile.
