{"id":99109,"date":"2017-01-19T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=99109"},"modified":"2017-01-19T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:13:12","slug":"trump-enters-the-twilight-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/trump-enters-the-twilight-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump enters The Twilight Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not often that the work of a humble TV reviewer from a Sunday broadsheet hits the headlines and goes viral \u2013 but we are living in strange times.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Sunday-Herald-TV-e1484567871339\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Damien Love, a TV reviewer for the Scottish-based Sunday Herald, created quite a social media stir over the weekend with his tongue-in-cheek preview of President-Elect Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration on Friday which he suggests is a new episode of sci-fi TV series The Twilight Zone.<\/p>\n

Love plays with the fact that many sci-fi writers have toyed with alternative history stories such as the Nazi\u2019s winning World War II \u2013 but this new episode offers an alternative present in which Trump becomes US President.<\/p>\n

Love describes Trumps forthcoming presidency as a \u201chuge interactive realty reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Love concludes his short piece by saying: \u201cIt\u2019s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we\u2019re not careful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neil Mackay, editor of The Herald wants to find out if The Donald has a sense of humour and has asked the \u201cgood people of the world\u201d to make sure he sees Love\u2019s piece.<\/p>\n

Mackay told journalists<\/u><\/a>: \u201cDamien is one of the best TV critics in the business. I\u2019ve been saying for years Damien Love is a must read, and if you miss him you\u2019re missing one of the best writers in Britain.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a very humble a modest guy so this had completely blindsided him, but I\u2019m delighted he\u2019s got the credit he deserves.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to tweak Donald Trump\u2019s tail a couple of days before the inauguration is delightful.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Donald Trump isn\u2019t a big fan of \u201cfake\u201d news (unless the \u201cfacts\u201d suit him), I wonder if he\u2019s a fan of satire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not often that the work of a humble TV reviewer from a Sunday broadsheet hits the headlines and goes viral \u2013 but we are living in strange times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":99116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3729,7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99135,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99109\/revisions\/99135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}