# Cast the hypothetical (but pretty sure to be made) movie about the Trump/Russia/Mueller clusterfuck **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212 "2018-02-20T17:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/21 "2018-02-21T14:28:36Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > Somebody short, balding, mild-mannered, and nondescript as Priebus. (Quoted post snipped) How about [Peter Jacobson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414772/)? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/22 "2018-02-21T16:50:49Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > (Quoted post snipped) > > How about [Peter Jacobson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414772/)? He could work, although I think Priebus is substantially shorter. The one I think I really hit a home run on was Martin Short doing Jeff Sessions. Just give him some Mickey Mouse ears. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/23 "2018-02-21T17:02:43Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Jon Heder has to be Eric Trump. I’d like to offer up the idea of a horror movie spoof of the Trump administration with Seth Meyers as Eric, because, for some reason, I just can’t get enough of this: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lWmxFSE-9Ww/maxresdefault.jpg "Father NO! Late Night Seth Meyers impressions of Eric Trump") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWmxFSE-9Ww) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/24 "2018-02-21T17:04:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > Somebody short, balding, mild-mannered, and nondescript as Priebus. Steve Carell could absolutely nail Preibus. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/25 "2018-02-21T22:21:22Z")
HBO could cast this from their own roster of talent: THE WHITE HOUSE: Stephen Miller ----- Tony Hale (VEEP: [Tony Hale - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hale)) John Kelly ----- Gary Cole (VEEP) Sarah Huckabee Sanders ---- Kathy Najimy (VEEP) Steve Bannon ------ T. J. Miller (Silicon Valley) Hope Hicks — Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) Rob Porter —Jack Gleeson (Joffrey in Game of Thrones) Kellyanne Conway —Lisa Kudrow (The Comeback) Sean Spicer — Matt Lucas (Little Britain USA) Reince Priebus — Ron Livingston (Boardwalk Empire) Anthony Scaramucci —Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood) THE CABINET and THE FBI: Jeff Sessions —Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) Ben Carson — Jeffrey Wright (Boardwalk Empire) Betsy DeVos —Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm) Steven Mnuchin —Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) Mueller ----- John Turturro (The Night Of) OR Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) James Comey —Timothy Simons (VEEP) THE TRUMPS: Melania — Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) Ivanka — Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) Jared — Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones) Ivanna — Frances McDormand (Olive Kitteridge) Eric Trump ----Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley) Don, Jr. ----Chris Diamantopoulos (Silicon Valley) And as Donald Jennifer Trump: Ricky Gervais (The Ricky Gervaise Show) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/26 "2018-04-10T16:46:19Z")
Bumping this thread now that we have to write in some new characters. First, Michael Avenatti! This guy has gone from sideshow to strangely powerful Trump foe. He’s a good looking guy: [http://3popmusic.com/tschultz/avenatti/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Ten-B-300x300.jpg](http://3popmusic.com/tschultz/avenatti/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Ten-B-300x300.jpg). I like Channing Tatum for that role. Tatum’s ten years younger than Avenatti, but makeup can add ten years easily. And I think Tatum could handle the mix of farce and steely-eyed drama. And even without makeup, his looks are in the ballpark: [https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol\_images/Entire\_Site/201833/rs\_634x1024-180403115241-634-jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-red-carpet.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&output-quality=100](https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201833/rs_634x1024-180403115241-634-jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-red-carpet.jpg?fit=inside%7C900:auto&output-quality=100) Then, of course, we’ll have to cast for the role of Stormy Daniels. She could probably play herself. If not, maybe Naomi Watts, who was so good as besieged CIA agent Valerie Plame in _Fair Game_. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/27 "2018-04-10T16:56:22Z")
[Christopher Denham](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1706832/mediaviewer/rm87899392) for Rod Rosenstein. He’s perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/28 "2018-04-10T18:01:03Z")
Stormy Daniels as Kellyanne Conway. Seriously. I saw a pic the other day and I couldn’t quite figure out if it was a photo of Conway on a really good day or Daniels on a really bad day. (My twisted sense of humor thinks it would be boffo if Daniels played Ivanka. After all, Spanky supposedly told Daniels she reminded him of his daughter and I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean Tiffany.) ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/29 "2018-04-17T00:01:00Z")
The whole thing is so surreal that only a combination of computer simulations and live actors can replicate it. Where might the line be drawn between cartoon and live actor? Sanders, Spicer, Kellyanne. Carson are naturals for cartoons. Obviously Homer Simpson wins the Trump role. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/30 "2018-04-18T07:48:08Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > The whole thing is so surreal that only a combination of computer simulations and live actors can replicate it. Better yet, a _Simpsons_-style comedy with Homer as Trump. O-o-o-o-h! A big red button on my desk! What’s it do? It launches missiles at North Korea, sir. Ha! Take that, King John Un! And that! And that! \ Good thing we disconnected that yesterday.I mean, [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGQpjCztgA) could be recycled whole with a change of clothes and more hair. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/31 "2018-04-18T11:40:39Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > Where might the line be drawn between cartoon and live actor?.. > > Obviously Homer Simpson wins the Trump role. You’ve missed something essential. The **actual** line between cartoon and live actor has you and me on one side of it, and the current president on the other side. The creeping cartoonification of what used to be real life is part of the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/32 "2018-04-18T11:49:57Z")
Paul Giamatti as Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/33 "2018-04-18T12:34:38Z")
Chris Noth as Mueller. Watch _Manhunt: Unabomber_. He’s perfect, and even resembles Mueller. [https://goo.gl/images/52sRmX](https://goo.gl/images/52sRmX) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/34 "2018-04-18T13:01:44Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Paul Giamatti as Putin. Daniel Craig with a shaved head as Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/35 "2018-04-18T13:04:36Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Daniel Craig with a shaved head as Putin. Too tall and too tough looking; Putin’s basically a garden gnome with aspirations. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/36 "2018-04-18T14:27:09Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > We had a similar thread a while back, and it’s just not possible to cast someone as Trump unless you’re making a comedy. Trump is such a self-created caricature of a human being that it would be impossible to play him straight without seeming as if you were mocking him. > > So the only way to do it is to always have Trump offstage, and have the movie be about Trump without ever seeing or hearing Trump on screen, in the same way that “All the President’s Men” never had someone playing Nixon. > > The only other workaround would be to use archival footage of the actual Trump. That workaround didn’t solve the problem in _Good Night, and Good Luck_ – audiences thought that the “portrayal” of Joe McCarthy was over the top. The same thing would surely happen with Trump’s trumpery. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/37 "2018-04-18T14:28:13Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Too tall and too tough looking; Putin’s basically a garden gnome with aspirations. Of course, the first time you found somebody who looks like a garden gnome, you’d have to cast him as Jeff Sessions and would need another one for Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/38 "2018-04-18T14:48:12Z")
I remember some “controversy” from one of the Harry Potter movies where people said that Dobby the Elf looked a little too much like Putin. So, there’s our Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/39 "2018-04-19T14:24:43Z")
If we are going the lampooning route Melissa McCarthy should revive her role as Sean Spicer. She had him nailed. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212/40 "2018-04-19T20:53:39Z")
I give you Beverly from “Will and Grace”: [https://goo.gl/images/z9zDau](https://goo.gl/images/z9zDau). to play sessions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-hypothetical-but-pretty-sure-to-be-made-movie-about-the-trump-russia-mueller-clusterfuck/809212.md?page=3)