Fake News and Alternative Facts: The Fictional Reality of Donald J. Trump
"The Beverly Hillbillies? They're pretend, Randy. Just like Richie Rich and Donald Trump. They're TV characters."--Early Hickey Let me begin by stating this, and I hope it's clear. This is not a political post. If you want to know my views on our president, come find me on social media. This is an objective look at our 45th president's fictional counterpart that exists within the Television Crossover Universe. Whatever is going on in the real world is irrelevant. From a TVCU perspective, this is a historic moment. We've talked about U.S. Presidents before as they exist in the TVCU. But usually, those presidents gain their fictional counterparts retroactively, years after their deaths in the case of pre-television age presidents like George Washington, or once they enter the political world, for those presidents who exist in our television age. Our current president, Donald J. Trump is a very different kind of president. W...