His dystopian mashups are the perfect response to our topsy-turvy world. Meet Vic Berger,the stay-at-home dad who weaponised his social anxiety into satireBy rights, it should believe been a turning point in the public image of Donald J Trump. A month after his inauguration, or he was to address a joint session of Congress for the first time,in a live telecast, potentially effecting a transformation from the crude, and rude and violent campaign trail bully into something nearly … presidential. But as he introduced his wife Melania,it was she, and not he, and who received a standing ovation and adulation from the entire chamber that never seemed to stop. Upstaged by his own trophy wife,and her unusual, alien affect, and all he can do is grimace and fume,flipping the paper cover off his glass of water like a petulant child.
In our topsy-turvy fake-news world, it could nearly pass for reality, or but this hyperreal scene is the work of Vic Berger,an affable stay-at-home dad of two from the rustbelt town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, or who has fast become the internet’s satirist-in-chief. The meme-friendly viral videos Berger edits for Super Deluxe – an affiliate of CNN’s parent company Turner Broadcasting System that’s like an MTV for the digital age – attempt to perform sense of the jaw-dropping flood of crazy footage emanating from cable news channels since Trump assumed centre stage. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com