'What did Trump just say?'

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

Coronavirus-induced cabin fever got you down? Laughter helps.

I had my iPhone out and was watching a short video my friend and fellow Graves countian Holly Erwin emailed me.

"What did Trump just say?" asked Melinda, my spouse of 41 years, her head swiftly swiveling toward me in one of those cartoon double-takes.

I grinned, flipped the screen toward her and introduced her to 40-year-old Bloomfield, N.J., attorney-turned-comedian J-L Cauvin. He doesn't have the Trumpian only-your-hairdresser-knows-for-sure pouffy bleach-bottle-blonde-orange mane or puckered lips ala-Alec Baldwin. But his voice is a dead ringer for The Donald's.

Close your eyes, click here or here and you'll swear it's the Very Stable Genius himself. 

Cauvin's spoof has gone viral, wrote Rob Jennings of NJ Advance Media for NJ.com online. The irreverent riff has attracted close to three million viewers since he wrote and posted it Tuesday afternoon.

“It’s crazy," Jennings quoted the comic. "Sixteen years as a stand-up, and all it took was a global pandemic for me to finally break through."

In 2017, Cauvin, who 'fesses up to voting for Clinton, recorded an album impersonating Trump, according to Jennings. But “it would never enter my mind to vote for him,” he also told the scribe.  

I don't want to spoil the send up. But it's about Trump's nutty notion that we can whip the pandemic and get the economy revved back up by Easter.