About

Sassy Trump refers to a series of videos created by comedian and actor Peter Serafinowicz in which he takes footage of speeches made by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and dubs over them in an effeminate voice.

Origin

On December 17th, 2015, Serafinowicz uploaded his first Trump voiceover to Youtube, giving him a British, aristocratic voice.^[1] He has done a few other videos of Trump with different accents, but the first appearance of Sassy Trump came March 4th, 2016 (shown below).

Spread

Serafinowicz did not start regularly putting out Sassy Trump videos until August 2016, when he posted nine in the span of two weeks, as of August 15th, 2016.^[2] Blogs began picking up on Serafinowicz' videos the weekend of August 12th, 2016, after Boing Boing^[3] posted a playlist of his videos. After that, Sassy Trump was shared on Twitter by celebrities including JK Rowling, Patton Oswalt, and Alyssa Milano.^[4] As the videos began spreading, DailyKos,^[5] Metro.co.uk, and Uproxx,^[6] posted articles about them.

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