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Donald Trump: Presidential Elections In The United States
Donald Trump, the perfect cartoon character
Is 2016 again, and in the USA it means only one thing, election time. The presidential elections in the united states are usually the same as in every other country, but this presidential election has been something else. People on the social media is saying that this election started like any other election, but it has descended slowly into the spiral of the irrelevancy. Where the audience sees it as both something that can change the fate of this country, and also as a joke. Both of the running candidates: ex-secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and business magnate Donald Trump. Both of them have done terrible things, politically speaking. Stirring the controversy around the media. And a cartoon has managed to narrate this chapter in history in a hilarious but thoughtful way.
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First aired on August 13, 1997. with 19 seasons aired, and a 20th being aired every Wednesday night on Comedy Central. South Park has been relevant since its first season for three things: its hilarious situations, it takes impropriety to a whole new level, and last but not least, its way to tell current events happening in the world in a satirical form. The 20th season of the show started airing on September 14, 2016. The current season treats topics such as how the internet trolling, the act of making fun of someone on the internet, and the most important; the presidential election of 2016. The scene makes a resemblance of NBC’s TV show, commander in chief

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