# "Donald Grump" on "Sesame Street"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-grump-on-sesame-street/954647>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\
**Created:** [November 19, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-grump-on-sesame-street/954647 "2021-11-19T23:45:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-grump-on-sesame-street/954647/1 "2021-11-19T23:45:19Z")

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I had no idea any of this existed until a few days ago!

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yQyTpPu0gvc/hqdefault.jpg "Sesame Street - Grouch Apprentice with Donald Grump") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQyTpPu0gvc)

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQyTpPu0gv)

Mods, feel free to move it if you deem it appropriate.

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-grump-on-sesame-street/954647/2 "2021-11-19T23:52:42Z")

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When H Ross Perot ran for President, Sesame Street introduced H Ross Parrot- a bird dedicated to putting things in alphabetical order! I am not making this up.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-grump-on-sesame-street/954647/3 "2021-11-19T23:57:39Z")

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No, you aren’t! Love it!

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iKSGF4Ufso8/hqdefault.jpg "Sesame Street - H. Ross Parrot") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKSGF4Ufso8)

During his campaign, I was in college, and had a class in a wedge-shaped classroom with medical and physician’s assistant students, and the front of the room had a room-sized curved chalkboard with another narrow board above it. One morning, two medical students (we later found out) came in and wrote the alphabet on that narrow board, a la an elementary school classroom. A professor who taught that class, who looked like a cartoonist’s rendition of Perot, walked in, tapped his meter stick on the stage, and as he pointed at it, said, “I’m glad you haven’t all lost your sense of humor.”

That remained until the end of the semester.

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-grump-on-sesame-street/954647/4 "2021-11-20T00:01:51Z")

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It should be noted that the episode is 16 years old. In addition to Donald Grump, there also a Donald himself in parody Muppet form and an even earlier “Ronald Grump” in 1988 who builds Grump Tower.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-grump-on-sesame-street/954647/5 "2021-11-20T13:17:27Z")

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[Moderating]

> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> Mods, feel free to move it if you deem it appropriate.

While some degree of politics is inevitable in a thread like this, it’s inherently about an artistic depiction. The verdict is that the thread remains in CS.