What are you going to do? It’s terrible, let’s not talk about it, but I said it…”ĭaisey says at the outset that his aim in the monologue is not to flay Trump for the audience’s pleasure. I mean, by ‘I think,’ I mean ‘people are saying.’ I mean, I don’t want to think it, but it’s just happening. “I think the President works with Muslim extremists. And then, a couple of times, Daisey mimics the presidential candidate’s smarmy babbling when he introduces another outrageously offensive conspiracy theory but tries not to take responsibility for it:

He describes Trump’s mostly silent demeanor as host of “The Apprentice” as that of a “dyspeptic toad,” and then demonstrates with a hilarious facial expression.

There are a few moments in “The Trump Card” when Mike Daisey impersonates Donald Trump, to spot-on comic effect. This is, in another words, another Mike Daisey monologue. This is not how he appeared in his monologue. He has also performed it in Washington D.C., and written an article entitled “The Theatre of Trump,” for American Theatre Magazine, for which he got made up as Donald Trump: 6/24/16 Photograph © T Charles Erickson I saw Daisey perform the monologue in a one-night-only performance on a recent Sunday at Joe’s Pub. Mike Daisey has put a script of “The Trump Card,” his latest monologue, on his blog to encourage people to perform it without seeking his permission or paying royalties.

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