Sesame Street's brutal parody of Trump may have led to his 'vendetta' against PBS: report

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Source: Raw Story/Alternet

May 2, 2025 7:01PM ET


A Sesame Street character with the most trash and a fragile ego was possibly one parody too far for President Donald Trump, according to the Daily Beast:

"The president signed an executive order to halt all federal funding to PBS, the free public broadcasting service. Almost immediately, people began to suspect that Trump's vendetta against the network wasn't because of its 'woke programming,'" wrote The Beast's Clare Donaldson. "Instead, it's all to do with a certain puppet show that has been trolling the man since the '80s."

One of Trump's longest-running haters isn't one of his alleged scam victims, but "'Sesame Street'--the educational children's program that taught generations of kids to read and count." Cue the song lyric: "He's got so much trash it spills out of his can!"

Ronald Grump first hit the scene in the late 1980s as a "famous Grouch builder" looking to replace Oscar's trash can with a condominium of waste bins called "Grump Tower." All Oscar had to do was surrender his can and relocate to a trashy condo in Grump's new construction.

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Note that "Sesame Street" was filmed in and took place in a fictional neighborhood in NYC.

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He only wants to defund NPR and PBS because Sesame Street had a character named "Donald Grump"
1:19 AM · May 2, 2025

[taxi]

1. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

It's no wonder he bankrupted a casino, he has no game face. All he has is bluster and threats. Sesame Street hurt him very deeply, scarring him for life, and he can't get over it. Now, in protest too much, he shows the world once again how frail and weak his ego is. So he yells louder and does whatever he thinks will hurt his offender more, not realizing how correct he shows Sesame Street to be.

[hildegaard28]

2. That's seriously

On the nose. No wonder he hates it. Hilarious.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. And many of those were done 30 - 40 years ago

when he "exploded on the scene" with his wild persona.

[multigraincracker]

3. Just had to send that clip to friends.

A Classic with the back story

[robbob]

5. Why am I only seeing this for the first time??? 😂

This could have turned the election! 😂 Nothing tRump hates worse than being mocked!!!

[highplainsdem]

7. That YouTube video you have is less than half the skit. Here's all of it:

[RamblingRose]

8. Thanks!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Thanks - it was just Part 1 of 2.

I added it in AFTER posting the OP so it wouldn't show up on the side Videos column.

[LT Barclay]

20. Part 2 also provided important insight into Trump's cabinet selection process. And we can only hope, their retaliation

under the 25th amendment!

[Canada Kid]

10. Trump's level of entertainment.

So the only way The Orange Idiot could ever know about the history of the Donald Grump character is if he actually watches Sesame Street. The very fact that he finds time to watch between golf games is even more amazing! But seriously...he does have trouble following the content, and so he has Barron explaining the program for him. All you Americans failed to step up and elect Kamala, you at least could have voted for Elmo!

[Bayard]

11. Love Mr. Grump's orange hair!

I bet this did get under his skin.

[republianmushroom]

12. The convicted felon is a small person.

[Beartracks]

13. Thin skin and revenge politics: par for the course for an incompetent narcissist. n/t

[twodogsbarking]

14. It may be but on the other paw it is possible he just has a vendetta against everyone.

[IronLionZion]

16. Yet it never occurs to him that he might be the problem

when everyone is his enemy

[twodogsbarking]

18. He relishes it. Isn't it psychotic, don't ya think.

[IronLionZion]

15. Sesame Street has been parodying him since the 1980s

They knew he was a POS back then. Ronald Grump developed a shitty Grump Tower evicting Oscar the Grouch from his trash can home and ruining the neighborhood

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sesame-street-donald-grump/

[D. Spaulding]

17. If you go to this PBS site..

And fill in basic info, they will contact your Rep, opposing the stripping of funding. I have already done so, as well as contacted them personally
https://www.pbs.org/explore/news-and-public-affairs/

[LudwigPastorius]

19. I'm losing my hearing a bit.

Somebody please tell me what the one character sings after the line "His trash is more trashy" at 01:33 in the original post.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. It ain't just you

I turned on the closed caption option for that YouTube video and even that didn't catch it.

Listening to it a couple times, I *think* what the character sung was - "His fish stinks the most".

IIRC, part of that little skit had Grump challenge them (in order to whittle down who could continue working with him), by having them try to correctly guess "how many fish could fit" in a can.

[LudwigPastorius]

23. LOL OK

I must have recent events on my kind, because I thought she said “ He thinks he’s the Pope”.

No way the Sesame Street writers could be that prescient!

[Orrex]

22. They should make Grump a regular on the show

[Conjuay]

24. Now we know what to use as the parade music for the Army's 250th anniversary on June 14

Anyone have a really good hacker on speed dial?