A writer for the irreverent Comedy Central show South Park correctly predicted that Donald Trump would slap his name on the Kennedy Center.
A prescient writer for the irreverent Comedy Central show South Park correctly predicted that President Donald Trump would slap his name on the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, so he bought up Trump-Kennedy Center web domains to troll the president.
Writer Toby Morton bought the “trumpkennedycenter.org” and “trumpkennedycenter.com” domains back in August and is now plotting how best to parody Trump’s vanity, according to The Washington Post.
“As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yep, that name’s going on the building,’” Morton told The Post.
A South Park writer has revealed he quietly beat Donald Trump to the punch — by buying key domain names linked to the Kennedy Center months before its controversial rebrand.
Toby Morton has confirmed that he snapped up trumpkennedycenter.org and trumpkennedycenter.com back in August, anticipating that the Washington, D.C. arts venue would eventually be renamed in Trump’s honour.
The move comes after Donald Trump was elected chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in February. At the time, Trump announced plans to overhaul the centre’s programming, remove several members of its board of trustees, and put an end to productions he described as “woke”.
Earlier this month, a Trump-aligned board overseeing the Kennedy Center voted to officially rename the venue the Trump Kennedy Center, cementing fears among artists and arts organisations that the institution’s cultural direction was being politicised.
Morton has now revealed that he saw the rebrand coming and secured the domains as a form of pre-emptive trolling — a characteristically sharp-edged response from a writer on one of America’s most politically irreverent TV shows.
🔥Satirist promises to parody Trump-Kennedy Center following website purchase
"Mad TV" and "South Park" writer Toby Morton, a "creator of anti-fascist websites," bought trumpkennedycenter.org and trumpkennedycenter.com. read full news
It’s always nice to have someone who agrees with you on every point. Someone who will take up your battles for you. And maybe someone who will like or retweet those really weird statements that were maybe just a bit to embarrassing to put your name beside. For Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, that person is Freedom Fighter aka @freedom53597835 aka Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert.
Boebert isn’t the first Republican to be caught sockpuppeting to make her opinions seem more popular, to take secret jabs at enemies, or do whatever Boebert is doing when retweeting these posts. Not by a long shot. But there is something particularly interesting about finding out that this Republican has sockpuppet tendencies.
So, Lauren Boebert set up what’s clearly a throwaway sockpuppet account to boost her own posts, retweet some decidedly odd comments about men, and to follow Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (oh yes, Freedom Fighter follows AOC). But mostly what Boebert’s sockpuppet points out is that there’s a mystery out there that needs to be solved — and it’s all about a date.
Boebert’s sockpuppetry was discovered by comedy writer Toby Morton in a way that’s almost as hilarious as Morton’s work on South Park. In a solid Karen moment, Boebert came to chase Morton away when he was filming a bit at a location that Boebert felt was too close to her Colorado bar. During this encounter Boebert uses her phone to video Morton. But where did that video actually pop out at a time when Boebert wanted to shore up her position in an argument with Morton? From @freedom53597835.
At the moment, Boebert is still feeding posts into the burner account in a hilario-pathetic effort to prove that it’s so, so not her burner account. But, as Meidas Touch points out, the discovery of this account from Boebert only fires the starting gun for the real search—her other accounts. In particular, the Freedom Fighter account was created in February, meaning that it was created after the events of Jan. 6 and after Boebert was aware that she had been accused of leading insurgents on tours of the Capitol that were designed to show them how to subvert the building’s security.
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