Zimbabwe: American Humour Versus Zimbabwe's Foreign Reputation

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THE American comedy show, Saturday Night Live (SNL) has been having a decent go at President Donald Trump. In its latest edition, it had a section in which it parodied his phone calls to the Australian Prime Minister, Michael Turnbull, Mexican President Enrique Piena Neto and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

As expected, the abruptness of the three "calls" and bullish language attributed to Trump are great parody until the next comic call to a character playing Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. In it, "Trump" calls the Zimbabwean "President" and tells him: "This is the new sheriff in town."

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