Posts Tagged political satire

Trump’s Military Parade

New York City’s 33rd Annual April Fools’ Day Parade kicked off with a satirical take on Trump’s Military Parade. President Trump astride a tricycle mounted sling-shot launcher with a 10 foot tall rocket was joined by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean “Rocket Man” Kim Jong Un who had his own smaller rocket. 

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Trump’s Golden Throne

April Fools’ Day is Joey Skaggs’ favorite holiday. Every year since 1986, to commemorate and celebrate the folly of mankind, he has organized New York City’s Annual April Fools’ Day Parade. Over the years, the parade has grown in stature and has now joined the ranks of beloved New York parades. In 2017, unlike other years when the parades have attracted major media coverage but have basically been a figment of Joey’s imagination, there actually was a parade. It was a Trumpathon!

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April Fools’ Day Parade in Heat Street

Prankster Behind NYC April Fools’ Day Parade Says This Year’s Event Will Mock Trump, by Jillian Kay Melchior, March 28, 2017 For more than three decades, prankster Joey Skaggs has rejoiced in ensnaring the national media into covering fake news of his own invention. But this April

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April Fools’ Day Parade covered in Gothamist

This Week’s Trump Protests & Organizing Events In NYC by David Colon, March 27, 2017 NYC’s 32nd Annual April Fools’ Day Parade—It’s a Trumpathon Donald Trump has been named “King of Fools” before New York City’s April Fool’s Day Parade has even started, and in order to

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April Fools’ Day Parade covered in The New Yorker

ABOVE & BEYOND: April Fools’ Day Parade, March 26, 2017 “Our satire knows no bounds,” the organizers of this annual parade of jesters promise, yet is there any target more rewarding for the modern satirist than the Commander-in-Chief? New York’s thirty-second April Fools’ Day Parade calls for

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