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BumRushDaShow

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Sat May 3, 2025, 06:46 AM May 3

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

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.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/sesame-street/



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


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The lady doth protest too much, methinks. taxi May 3 #1
That's seriously hildegaard28 May 3 #2
And many of those were done 30 - 40 years ago BumRushDaShow May 3 #4
Just had to send that clip to friends. multigraincracker May 3 #3
Why am I only seeing this for the first time??? 😂 robbob May 3 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Omaha Steve May 3 #6
That YouTube video you have is less than half the skit. Here's all of it: highplainsdem May 3 #7
Thanks! RamblingRose May 3 #8
Thanks - it was just Part 1 of 2. BumRushDaShow May 3 #9
Part 2 also provided important insight into Trump's cabinet selection process. And we can only hope, their retaliation LT Barclay May 4 #20
Trump's level of entertainment. Canada Kid May 3 #10
Love Mr. Grump's orange hair! Bayard May 3 #11
The convicted felon is a small person. republianmushroom May 3 #12
Thin skin and revenge politics: par for the course for an incompetent narcissist. n/t Beartracks May 3 #13
It may be but on the other paw it is possible he just has a vendetta against everyone. twodogsbarking May 3 #14
Yet it never occurs to him that he might be the problem IronLionZion May 3 #16
He relishes it. Isn't it psychotic, don't ya think. twodogsbarking May 3 #18
Sesame Street has been parodying him since the 1980s IronLionZion May 3 #15
If you go to this PBS site.. D. Spaulding May 3 #17
I'm losing my hearing a bit. LudwigPastorius May 3 #19
It ain't just you BumRushDaShow May 4 #21
LOL OK LudwigPastorius May 4 #23
They should make Grump a regular on the show Orrex May 4 #22
Now we know what to use as the parade music for the Army's 250th anniversary on June 14 Conjuay May 4 #24
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