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President Donald Trump and his supporters are trying to claim the \u201cSesame Street\u201d puppet Elmo as one of their own \u2014 but online commenters are not allowing them to get away with it.<\/p>\n

Read more Republican warns against Trump\u2019s newest effort to \u2018dishonor\u2019 America<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe GOP has been faced with their anti-Elmo history after trying to welcome him into the MAGA fold,\u201d reported The Daily Beast’s Katie Francis on Sunday. The story began with Elmo declaring, regarding the ongoing World Cup soccer event, that \u201cElmo loves you, and Elmo loves you, and Elmo loves you, and Team USA, and everybody who\u2019s playing.” Yet Elmo then concluded, \u201cElmo just wants to set the record straight… GO TEAM USA!\u201d<\/p>\n

He also clarified, \u201cJust to be clear, Elmo wants Team USA to win, okay? But Elmo loves everybody!\u201d<\/p>\n

Notably, the Muppet predicted that his preference for Team USA might be exploited when he asked viewers to not \u201cmake this a thing.\u201d Yet despite this warning, House Republicans quickly posted the video with the comment that “Elmo is a certified PATRIOT!\u201d<\/p>\n

They then added, \u201cMeanwhile, Democrats are rooting for foreigners…\u201d<\/p>\n

What the House Republicans neglected to acknowledge was that Trump and his supporters have fiercely criticized \u201cSesame Street\u201d and the TV station PBS for its supposedly \u201cwoke\u201d culture. Social media users on X quickly reminded them of these facts.<\/p>\n

Read more \u2018Fact-checking his delusions\u2019: Trump\u2019s falsehoods may not be lies anymore, critics warn<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cYou clowns literally defunded elmo,\u201d one person posted.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou a—–es voted to defund PBS and called Sesame Street woke,\u201d another wrote. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t be more hypocritical, loud, wrong, or clueless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s vendetta against \u201cSesame Street\u201d may be personal as well as ideological. Last year The Daily Beast reported that after the president signed an executive order to immediately halt all federal funding to PBS, \u201calmost immediately, people began to suspect that Trump\u2019s vendetta against the network wasn\u2019t because of its ‘woke programming.’ Instead, it\u2019s all to do with a certain puppet show that has been trolling the man since the \u201980s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ronald Grump was a periodic but long-running spoof of the then-hotel magnate that began in the 1980s, as The Daily Beast reported. With song lyrics like \u201che\u2019s got so much trash it spills out of his can,\u201d locations like \u201cGrump Tower\u201d and occupations like \u201cfamous Grouch builder,\u201d Ronald Grump was an undisputed antagonist who tried to do nefarious things like force Oscar the Grouch to give up his garbage can (where he lives) and pave over all of \u201cSesame Street\u201d so he can turn it into \u201cGrump World.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Trump became a reality TV star, the spoofing continued. In a later episode, \u201cSesame Street\u201d mocked Trump\u2019s NBC reality show \u201cThe Apprentice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more The GOP is as cowardly and shameful as any group of politicians in American history<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump and his supporters are trying to claim the \u201cSesame Street\u201d puppet Elmo as one of their own \u2014 but online commenters are not allowing them to get away with it.\u201cThe GOP has been faced with their anti-Elmo history after trying to welcome him into the MAGA fold,\u201d reported The Daily…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nRepublicans got outplayed by Sesame Street's Elmo \u2014 and critics won't let them forget it - Next Address America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Republicans got outplayed by Sesame Street's Elmo \u2014 and critics won't let them forget it - 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