Sesame Street, which would lose federal support if some of the cuts proposed by the Trump Administration's draft budget go into effect, has been lampooning Donald Trump since long before he became president.
Avi Selk writes a post summarizing the "surprisingly vicious takedowns of Donald Trump" featured on Sesame Street over the three decades leading to his rise to political power. In three known episodes in which a character named "Donald Grump" appears, the Grump is employed as the villain in a moral allegory, according to Selk's take. "Whenever Grump visits Sesame Street, chaos is not far behind."
Here's how Selk summarizes each episode, with more detail in the article:
- Grump cons a muppet into signing a draconian contract
- Sesame Street gets politically woke
- Grump pits the muppets against each other. And someone sort of gets deported.
The Washington Post also created a video, which you can watch below, to explain Sesame Street's critique of Trump's business and moral code.
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