“I have spent the last few months feeling deranged,” she shouts, though she uses an expletive before “deranged.” “Going numb! What’s real, what’s fake? Part of the dystopian character of Trump’s presidency is his ubiquity; he dominates the news cycle, late-night TV, and book publishing. Perhaps that’s because people are desperate for a respite from Trump, or because the imagination can’t compete with the strangeness of reality. Sure, “Saturday Night Live” makes valiant attempts to parody Trump, but it’s hard to caricature a caricature.

Source: New York Times May 03, 2019 09:56 UTC