If you’ve been reading these pages for a minute, you know that we are firmly of the opinion that TikTok—while not without its issues—is one of the best places to go when you feel like you’re going crazy. Between the generally bleak news cycle, the attack on trans rights, and everything else that’s driving us slowly crazy, it’s good to have a place that puts the crappiness of the current moment into hilarious context.
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Consider, for instance, one creator who is dedicating his life to putting Trump in his true context: as a gay man.
Wait…what??
In an emerging TikTok series, queer creator @bransennn is taking some of Trump’s most unhinged monologues and recontextualizing them as things you might say to your gay friends at an SATC-style brunch debriefing. From Trump’s admiration of Arnold Palmer (“he was all man” to his appreciation of other “very successful, very rich” men, we’re starting to see a pattern…
What Trump is doing to trans people is no laughing matter. But while we stay fighting the evil he consistently ushers in on a daily basis, at least we can get our laughs in while we can.
