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Is Sarah Cooper the Reason Donald Trump Wants to Ban TikTok?
Is Trump also going to ban YouTube to silence Ms. Cooper? :lamo
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8/2/20
“As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump told the reporters traveling back with him to the nation's capital after a trip to Florida, according to a pool report. Trump said he could use emergency economic powers or an executive order to ban TikTok in the United States. But are national security concerns really behind Trump's sudden pronouncement? Or is there another reason why the president wants to ban TikTok? Social media had their own answer: It's all about Sarah Cooper. Cooper, of course, is the actress and comedian who has come to Internet fame by posting videos of her lip syncing Trump's speeches and interviews to hilarious effect, whether it's him denying he retreated to the White House bunker because of a threat posed by protestors, dodging a question about what his favorite Bible phrases are, or, most memorably, recreating his now-famous “People, woman, man, camera, TV” interview.
With more than half a million followers on TikTok, Cooper has been written up by The Hollywood Reporter, The Washington Post and The New York Times and appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and The Ellen Show. ("You make me so happy," Degeneres said). A profile in the Times of London was headlined: “How Sarah Cooper's Trump Takedowns Made Her America's New Comedy Hero." And true to form, on Friday night, she posted a video lip-syncing to Trump's later comments about TikTok, as he arrived back in Washington and headed to the White House. (Cooper even supplies visual effects, with her hair seemingly blowing in the wind as she mouths Trump’s words.) On Twitter, critics were quick to connect the dots. “BREAKING: Trump says he's issuing an executive order to ban TikTok in the United States and we all know it's because Sarah Cooper made fun of him,” one person posted, while another added, “Trump wants to ban TikTok because @sarahcpr is making him look like an absolute moron. And yet another reminded her followers of Trump's famously thin skin:
Meredith Lee ✓
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Trump: Sarah Cooper is being mean to me! I don’t like it when girls are mean to me! Ban Tik Tok because girls are mean to me!
12:41 AM · Aug 1, 2020
Is Trump also going to ban YouTube to silence Ms. Cooper? :lamo
[video=youtube;-YtxfJyTSR0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?-YtxfJyTSR0[/video]
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