WATCH: Democrat uses ‘Stranger Things’ to condemn Trump

Published February 16, 2017 7:39pm ET



A Democratic lawmaker used a House floor speech Thursday to compare the current state of affairs in the United States under President Trump to the dangerous, alternate dimension inhabited by monsters in the supernatural Netflix series “Stranger Things.”

Standing next to a floor prop emblazoned with “Trump Things,” a play on the show’s name, Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., said the American people, “like the main characters in ‘Stranger Things,’ we are now stuck in the ‘Upside Down'” — a reference to the show’s dark alternate dimension.

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