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(CNN) Among the other cherished institutions being upended -- if not literally ended -- by the actions and distractions of the Trump administration is the venerable tradition of political satire.

Yes, satire has been all over television, especially in late night, since the day Donald Trump glided down his gilded escalator; but not very much of it has been able to quite match the unfolding "events of the day" -- every day -- in the Trump White House.

What TV writer, for example, could possibly have come up with the suggestion -- ridiculous and malign -- that a potentially effective way to impede immigration across our southern border might be to dig a massive moat and fill it with alligators and snakes

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That Stephen Colbert, in his previous incarnation as host of "The Colbert Report" 13 years ago, actually came up with the exact preposterous immigration policy which a new book says was allegedly advocated by the President of the United States -- and denied by the President -- is not really all that surprising. In that role, after all, Colbert played a vain, narcissistic conservative true believer who was frequently given to spouting far-fringe ideas that politicians on the right might have been thinking in their gut, but were not willing, until Donald Trump, to speak out loud.

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