1. Like everyone else, I love Sarah Cooper's Trump lip-sync feats. I think one reason they work is that they don't try to exaggerate Trump but rather to underscore the absurdity of his own words. https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1253474772702429189

2. An Alec Baldwin impersonation tries to parody Trump - but you can't parody a parody. Trump's own words are usually much greater gibberish than anything SNL writers come up with. So the effect of Baldwin is, in a strange way, to normalize Trump.

3. The other normalization occurs in the briefings & media reports. Everyone around Trump is straightfaced even when he says whackadoodle things, thus normalizing him. And press quotes tend to tidy-up Trump's frequent wayward turns and incoherence.

4. Some more thoughts on the comedy of @sarahcpr (with a glace at the work of @MariaDeCotis) here: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/sarah-cooper-trump-comedy/