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My favorite act of political satire in recent years was on the 2016 election night (which I just missed participating in: my naturalization ceremony was a few weeks later), in which the theater I was working at the time played Gremlins 2. We wanted to be even-handed and double-bill it with something that was equally merciless to Hillary, but we couldn't find anything that was that, even moderately entertaining, and not potentially offensive to at least one significant demographic. A Gremlins 3 in which the little furry monsters take over the White House would have great potential (maybe Phoebe Cates could become the Karoline Leavitt character, and introduce Gizmo that way; he then gets an accidental bath in The Donald's Diet Coke, and the rest is history...), but it would only work with a script that was genuinely funny and didn't set out to alienate completely half the potential audience. The scene in which the gremlins gate crash one of Leavitt's press conferences would more or less write itself.
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