The 'Whitest Kids U' Know' YouTube Channel is Subtly Trolling the Trump Administration
Back in 2008, the beloved independent sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U’ Know predicted President Donald Trump’s recent attack on Venezuela. They also predicted that Trump would try to stir up pro-war sentiment against Iran, and, if Trump tries attacking Colombia, they’ll probably predict that one in 2008, too.In the later years of George W. Bush's presidency, a sketch comedy show emerged that challenged Americans to think more critically about their leaders and to experiment with what you can and legally cannot say on television. The Whitest Kids U' Know, IFC's sketch series starring the comedy troupe by the same name, pushed boundaries and toyed with taboos from 2007 to 2011, during which time Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore, Darren Trumeter, and Timmy Williams crafted some pretty prescient commentary on the current state of U.S. foreign policy.The Whitest Kids U' Know Season 2 sketch "Bear Problems" is a bit of a crystal ball when it comes to the current President's attempted regime changes, having successfully predicted the military operation from this past weekend in which American forces kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro while killing at least 40 people.
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At least, that's what you'd think if you watched “Bear Problems” for the first time on the official Whitest Kids U' Know YouTube page within the past few weeks:Yes, The Whitest Kids U' Know have been re-uploading their sketch about a White House press secretary using a far-fetched story about intergalactic drug cartels conspiring with moon bears as pretense for a foreign invasion with a subtly dubbed audio track to draw fans' attention to the fact that, nearly 20 years after Moore mocked the Bush Administration for its deceptive warmongering, Trump is using the exact same tactics featured in “Bear Problems” to drum up support for his South American aggression.But “Bear Problems” isn't the only vintage Whitest Kids U' Know sketch to earn a cheeky re-upload from whichever troll runs the official YouTube channel – the Season 1 sketch “Bogey on My Six” also got a snarky repost late last year:This isn't the first time the Whitest Kids U' Know YouTube admin has used re-uploads of beloved sketches to criticize the Trump Administration's growing militarism. Back in the summer, when it appeared that Trump was working towards a long-awaited invasion of Iran, they pulled the same gag, also using “Bear Problems” to highlight the morbid absurdity of our leaders' justification for their warmongering.They even threw in a few nuke jokes, just for fun:It's depressing to see how, nearly two decades after The Whitest Kids U' Know perfectly satirized an administration whose warlike tendencies proved to be disastrous, deadly and entirely duplicitous, the far right is running it back with the same pro-war sophistry that Bush/Cheney used to practically bankrupt our country and kill over one million people overseas.Clearly, America didn't learn anything when The Whitest Kids U' Know was first on the air – but, hopefully, the reruns will help us come to our senses before it's too late:
