Trump Bites

Storyline

Every day, Donald Trump unleashes a torrent of exaggerations, insults, threats, and self-pity. What's going on inside that fevered brain? In this series of short animated films, two-time Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton uses actual audio clips of Donald Trump as the basis for surreal animations depicting the president's tumultuous inner life. Emmy-nominated writer-producer Billy Shebar has scoured Internet, TV and radio archives for juicy Trump sound bites to inspire Plympton's surreal, hand-drawn animations. Trump Bites is the illegitimate offspring of Plympton's witty animations and Trump's witless pronouncements. The first three episodes of Trump Bites premiered on the New York Times web site, where they led all content for three days running, garnering tens of millions of views. The episodes so far: "It's the bigness of the office..." A giant CEO visits the tiny man in the Oval Office, and sheds tears - not, as Trump says, because of the grandeur of the place, but because Trump is president. "I do have a relationship with him..." The President fantasizes about riding behind his Russian crush, shirtless, on a unicorn. "I'm a cleanliness freak..." As Trump washes his hands, he has a terrifying daydream in which thousands of tiny immigrants pour out of the faucet. "I alone can fix it..." As Trump's pronouncements become increasingly unhinged, his head peels like an orange, his brain floats away, and all that's left is a tiny mouth. Trump Bites is the brainchild of producers Billy Shebar and David C. Roberts, and is a production of 110th Street Films. The first three episodes premiered on the New York Times web site.