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Demi Lovato has made the most damning protest song of the Trump era

Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 15 October 2020

HOW DO YOU SOLVE a problem like Donald? Like Nixon, Reagan and Thatcher before him, President Trump has been a great catalyst for protest in the arts but his villainy is so absurd and flamboyant that it is hard to attack him without stating the obvious. Assaulting him head-on is like staring into the sun. It is no surprise that his most effective satirist is the comedian Sarah Cooper, who lip-syncs to his own words rather than writing her own.

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