Sesame Street's brutal parody of Trump may have led to his 'vendetta' against PBS: report

02 May

Sesame Street's 'Ronald Grump' may have made powerful enemies at the White House (ScreenGrab/X)

A Sesame Street character with the most trash and a fragile ego was possibly one parody too far for President Donald Trump, according to the Daily Beast:

“The president signed an executive order to halt all federal funding to PBS, the free public broadcasting service. Almost immediately, people began to suspect that Trump’s vendetta against the network wasn’t because of its 'woke programming,'" wrote the Beast's Clare Donaldson. "Instead, it’s all to do with a certain puppet show that has been trolling the man since the ’80s.”

One of Trump’s longest-running haters isn’t one of his alleged scam victims, but “‘Sesame Street’—the educational children’s program that taught generations of kids to read and count.”

Cue the song lyric: “He’s got so much trash it spills out of his can!”

Ronald Grump first hit the scene in the late 1980s as a “famous Grouch builder” looking to replace Oscar’s trash can with a condominium of waste bins called “Grump Tower.” All Oscar had to do was surrender his can and relocate to a trashy condo in Grump’s new construction.

There were strings attached, of course, so Oscar ends up fighting his way back out of Grump’s twisty contract with the help of the Sesame Street community.

Later, in the 1990s, ‘Sesame Street’ convinced actor Joe Pesci to lend his voice for another round as Grump threatens to turn Sesame Street into “Grump World.”

The show later did a parody of Trump’s NBC reality show The Apprentice.

Read the entire Daily Beast article here.

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