Written by a scholar of satire and politics, Trump Was a Joke explains why satire is an exceptional foil for absurd political times and why it did a particularly good job of making sense of Trump.

Sophia A. McClennen is Director of the Center for Global Studies and Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.

Acknowledgements

Forward by Michael Moore

Chapter 1. This Can't Be Good, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Satire

Chapter 2. Trump Was a Joke, But It Wasn't Funny

Chapter 3. It's Hard to Make a Joke Out of a Joke

Chapter 4. The First Media-Created President

Chapter 5. "Let's Make Donald Drumpf Again"

Chapter 6. The Joke's on You: The Power of Satire

Chapter 7. The Last Laugh: Satire's Secret Weapon

Works Cited

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