Trump's tormentor: Vic Berger, the viral video-maker taking satire into the fake-news age
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 satire
By rights, it should have been a turning point in the public image of Donald J Trump. A month after his inauguration, he was to address a joint session of Congress for the first time, in a live telecast, potentially effecting a transformation from the crude, rude and violent campaign trail bully into something almost … presidential. But as he introduced his wife Melania, it was she, and not he, who received a standing ovation and adulation from the entire chamber that never seemed to end. Upstaged by his own trophy wife, and her strange, alien affect, 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
