JD Vance, Trump’s policy translator

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In the 2010-era sketch comedy series Key & Peele, former President Barack Obama had an “anger translator” who would interpret his calmly delivered pronouncements into rage-fueled tirades, revealing Obama’s deepest inner thoughts.

If Obama said, “We count on the press to shed light on the most important issues of the day,” the translator, named Luther, would say, “And we can count on Fox News to terrify old white people with some nonsense!”

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