How Presidents Shape Pop Culture
While guesting on the podcast “Park and Recollection,” about the TV show Parks and Recreation, Patton Oswalt discussed how he thinks each president’s personality “sets the tone for the pop culture.”
This video cuts off at Obama, but here’s the rest –
"And then there was a rejection of [Obama], with Donald Trump, which I think was a combination of a white reaction to having a black president, quite frankly. But it's also this thing if you notice, because Trump's whole thing is, like, Well, what is reality? What is truth? And now everything is all about the mutliverse [e.g., the Marvel multiverse] and "Everything Everywhere All at Once," or "Russian Doll," where nothing's really real. There's no actual set truth anymore. And everything is amorphous."
I wonder what the pop culture will be when Harris wins? Joy?