“Donald Trump is like the emperor of Star Wars : he is old, he embodies evil and he comes back without any reasonable explanation,” joked, a few hours after the election of the Republican president, the American actor, comedian and host Jimmy Kimmel in the live show he presents on YouTube .
The comparison between Trump and Palpatine is not that new since a YouTuber had already had fun, in November 2016, by putting the former’s voice on a passage from Star Wars featuring the second.
Donald Duck, Picsou, Jaba the Hut…
After the attempted attack on Donald Trump, Trailerclub also “attributed” to him, on Reddit, the famous reply of the emperor: “The attack left me bruised and disfigured, but I assure you that my determination will not has never been so strong! »
However, Palpatine is not the only fictional character to whom the new president of the United States is compared: by probing the depths of the Web, we regularly see him as Donald Duck (first name required?), Scrooge (for his fortune? ) or Jabba the Hut (for his size?).
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On the Quora forum, several topics are even devoted to the question. Some compare him to Zap Brannigan (from the animated series Futurama), “moronic, petty, narcissistic and flirtatious”; to Sam the Pirate, “because he is angry”; in Farquaad in Shrek“an ignoramus who delights in others dying for causes in which he himself should be more involved.”
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One Quora member even compared Trump to the character Robert Baratheon (played by Mark Addy) in the series Game of Thronesbecause he’s “braggart, unaware of the rules and… he has beautiful blond children who don’t look like him at all.”
