YouTubers Auralnauts hilariously reimagine Darth Vader‘s scenes from the original Star Wars films using real Donald Trump soundbites. Watch below.
Depending on who you ask, Darth Trump is both a sendup and a tribute to the very real, very unhinged rhetoric that’s made Trump’s bid for the GOP nomination much less fantastical than one would have imagined. From the Auralnauts’ perspective, the public’s mixed reactions are just a reflection of how modern American politics work.
“Everyone is seeing what they want and using it as evidence for what they believe,” they said.
In their fantasy, a spectral Trump continues to poll well across the galaxy even after he’s presumably given up the Dark Side and rejoined Yoda and Obi-Wan. I asked the Auralnauts what Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader’s one-time mentor and co-conspirator would make of Trump’s bid for the White House. If given the choice between Darth Vader and Trump, who would Palpatine ultimately choose to back?
“We’re pretty positive Palpatine would stick with Vader,” they told me. “Given the GOP’s inability to reign Trump in, we believe Palpatine would find himself in a similar situation.”
“Vader, despite a last second change of heart, was a reliable patsy who never questioned Palpatine’s policies except when it came to family values,” they went on. “I guess that makes him sort of a Jeb Bush.”
(via Fusion)
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