Reality Winner? Covfefe? Whoever’s been writing this Trump-Russia sitcom is running out of ideas

| 4:42 am EDT June 6, 2017
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Even the best of television shows succumb to it eventually. We’ve all seen it happen to our favorites over the years. And now it appears that whoever’s been writing this cartoonish, demented Trump-Russia sitcom has finally run out of ideas. The show has simply jumped the shark. And it makes you wonder about what ridiculous thing the writers’ room might come up with next.

I’ll admit, the “covfefe” moment was a guilty pleasure. But it was a sign of trouble. The people writing this show had to have been sitting around the table and, totally out of ideas, decided to simply have their main character invent a new word to confuse everyone. There was really nowhere to go after that. If you’re going to craft a sitcom around a premise as ridiculous as a mentally unstable reality show host illegitimately becoming President of the United States, you can’t introduce his new nemesis and name her “Reality Winner.” You just can’t.

There are other signs that the Trump-Russia sitcom is running out of ideas. The decision to have Donald Trump attack the mayor of London, during a terrorist attack on London, was too over the top even by Trump’s standards. It just wasn’t believable. There are also questions about why Sean Spicer keeps disappearing; did the actor portraying him decide to quit the show?

Now they keep crafting B-plots in which Carter Page – who was never a believable character – keeps going on cable news and saying stupid incriminating things about himself over and over again. No one is that stupid. And don’t get me started on the writers’ room decision to have Vladimir Putin try and fail to poison the same guy twice in a row. Putin was once an intriguing villain; now he’s just predictable.

If the people writing this Trump-Russia sitcom want us to keep tuning in, they’ve got to be more creative. Otherwise we might as well demand that the show be canceled. We’re supposed to believe that there’s a new character in all this named Reality Winner? Will they later reveal that she secretly won The Apprentice, only to have it stolen from her by Russian hackers? This is all a bunch of covfefe, and the writers of this show know it. Maybe it’s time we cancel this fictional farce and go back to having a real President.