Elizabeth Banks parodies Donald Trump with blustery entrance at DNC

Elizabeth Banks enters the Democratic National Convention stage.

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published 26 July 2016

When Donald Trump made his (first) dramatic entrance at the Republican National Convention last week, his silhouette appearing as "We Are the Champions" blared in the background, you could already imagine the parodies to come.

On Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention, actress Elizabeth Banks did her best impersonation of Trump's blustery entrance, then went in for a dig. "Some of you know me from The Hunger Games, in which I play Effie Trinket, a cruel out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia," she said. "When I tuned into Cleveland last week, I was like, 'Hey, that's my act.'" Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.