Scottish Paper Describes Trump's Inauguration as 'Twilight Zone' Reboot

ashley.rae | January 17, 2017
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The Sunday Scottish Herald’s preview of BBC One’s coverage of Donald Trump’s inauguration described the upcoming event as a “nightmarish” return of the science-fiction series “The Twilight Zone.”

The preview, written by Damien Love, appeared alongside the normal television listings. Instead of providing a simple description of BBC’s coverage of the historic event, Love satirically depicted the event of an “interactive virtual reality project” that takes place “alternative present” of a “nightmarish version of 2017″:

President Trump: The Inauguration

4pm, BBC One/STV

After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories – among the most common is the “What if The Nazis Had Won The Second World War” setting – but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present. The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today’s feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead. It’s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we’re not careful.

The editor of the Sunday Herald, Neil Mackay, tweeted that he would “like the good people of the world to help me get [Trump] to read this from today’s Sunday Herald. Love from Scotland”:

The preview has taken off with anti-Trump celebrities, such as George Takei.

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