Where to Stream: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

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There’s a well known maxim: if you’re going to do a Donald Trump parody, you go for the best. And the best Trump impersonator out there isn’t Alec Baldwin (sorry, SNL)… It’s Anthony Atamanuik, whose absolutely savage take on the President has graced everything from live shows to Sarah Silverman’s Hulu show, to Comedy Central’s ongoing The President Show.

Add Netflix’s final few episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt into the mix, which launched an alternate universe take on the series featuring Atamanuik’s Trump in the third episode of Season 4b, “Sliding Van Doors”.

The episode itself is a take on Sliding Doors (of all things), as we get to see what the characters’ lives would have been like if both Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) and Titus (Tituss Burgess) had gone to see a showing of, uh, Sliding Doors. It’s pretty meta, and we get to see not just how their lives would have changed, but how the ripples spread outwards to the entire world (yes, there’s a Butterfly Effect joke later on). That includes not just Jacqueline White (Jane Krakowski) ending up as a flight attendant on a much, much worse airline, but the course of the Presidency itself.

Because Kimmy went to see Sliding Doors instead of going with a strange man in a white van, she was never held for years in a bunker, the Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm) was never caught, and he ends up winning The Apprentice. Perhaps somewhat related, Howard Dean becomes President, and Apprentice host Trump ends up on one of Jacqueline’s flights. That’s where Atamanuik’s already brilliantly gross impersonation comes in.

Kimmy, trying to change her life, encounters a down on her luck Jacqueline, and coerces her into having sex with Trump.

“I make tall penis buildings,” Trump says. “They have sex with the sky.”

Which, mind you, is completely accurate. That’s what Trump does, mostly. This Trump, though, gets even more pathetic.

“I hear he’s almost a millionaire,” Kimmy says, still encouraging Jacqueline to sleep with Trump while addressing the rumors that the real Trump is nowhere near as rich as he claims.

After Trump shuffles two double hamburgers together to make a quadruple hamburger, Jacqueline sucks it up and has sex with Trump in the airplane bathroom. Two minutes later, he has a massive heart attack, moaning “I was born in Kenya,” and the plane is forced to turn around.

Don’t worry, he survives. As we find out later on a news report, he recuperates at the Trump International Hospital, Casino and Grill, “where his best friend, nobody, is by his side.”

Cutting to a mostly bald Trump, long hair hanging down, he quips that, “I died for almost six minutes, where I went to Hell. Full of losers. Sad!”

So, just to review, in the span of about ten minutes, Kimmy Schmidt killed Trump, sent him to Hell, revealed he has no friends and no money. Oh, and I didn’t even mention the part where he boasted about his proudest accomplishment, “Not getting AIDS from Roy Cohn.”

Look, I’m not the hugest fan of the show’s take no prisoners attitude to jokes, particularly when it comes to their confusing takedown of the #MeToo movement. And I’m also not a huge fan of Trump being in everything… He’s already dominating the news, do we need “Make America Great Again!” jokes on every comedy show, as well?

But Atamanuik’s Trump is completely horrific in his pathetic-ness, and the series wastes no time absolutely obliterating him. It’s an absolutely merciless skewering of the President that goes farther than most late night programs… Even if it does take place in an alternate reality.

Stream Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix