Law and Ego: Are Trump Porn Parodies Risky? | YNOT
As the they promote their casting process and otherwise seek to generate publicity for their upcoming Trump parodies, I suspect XHamster?s video producers have no concerns whatsoever about backlash from Trump, reasoning that as a company located outside the U.S., they have little to fear from an angry Trump fuming behind his Oval Office desk.
Ordinarily, I?d say they have nothing to worry about. But this is no ordinary president, and these are not ordinary times.
This is a president who has already openly threatened individual companies with tariffs and taxes to bend them to his will and implied he might pull federal funding from a major university after an event featuring a conservative speaker was cancelled over security concerns. Sure, the threat directed at Berkeley probably has no legal basis whatsoever, but such details clearly matter less to Trump than satisfying his urge to intimidate and cajole the targets of his tweets.
Will Trump take some sort of action (overt or otherwise) against porn companies that produce Trump-themed porn parodies? Probably not ? but at this point, would anything the man does surprise you?
Before you answer that question, ask yourself another: Has any previous president ever called a sitting federal judge, one appointed by a predecessor from the same political party, a ?so-called judge?? Have any previous president suggested another judge can?t be objective because of his Mexican heritage?
It?s always tricky to divine the pending legal priorities of a new presidential administration. But when the president is one who routinely extols the strategic virtues of being unpredictable and exhibits a penchant for lashing out at perceived enemies, it might be wise to err on the side of caution.