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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 07:06 PM Mar 2016

Donald Trump Gets AIDS In A New Movie, And That Has Studio Execs In A Panic

Donald Trump Gets AIDS In A New Movie, And That Has Studio Execs In A Panic

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-brothers-grimsby-sacha-baron-cohen_us_56d8774ce4b03a405677a912

Audiences at screenings around the world, and some even in the United States, have been cheering and applauding a macabre scene in a new film by Sacha Baron Cohen in which "Donald Trump" accidentally contracts HIV.

"The Brothers Grimsby" opens March 11 in the U.S., though chances are you're learning that for the first time here, given a decision by Sony Pictures to limit its marketing of the satiric comedy. The studio is concerned about the reaction from the real Donald Trump, according to industry sources familiar with the situation.

At the film's world premiere in London last week, the Daily Telegraph reported that the Trump moment was met with "loud cheering." The Metro newspaper called it a "massive cheer." A viewer at a different screening tweeted, "Went to watch Grimsby and the whole cinema clapped when Donald Trump got given AIDS in it."

Elsewhere in Europe, there were standing ovations. The joke, done in Baron Cohen's standard over-the-top style, is proving cathartic to overseas audiences terrified by Trump's rise.
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Donald Trump Gets AIDS In A New Movie, And That Has Studio Execs In A Panic (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2016 OP
HA HA AIDS IS FUNNY HA HA HA Heddi Mar 2016 #1
Yup, even on DU nichomachus Mar 2016 #2
I'm a child of the 80s AngryAmish Mar 2016 #3
 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
3. I'm a child of the 80s
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 07:41 PM
Mar 2016

The AIDS jokes were soooooo funny then when my friends were dying.

They get better with age.

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