TikTok comedian Sarah Cooper perfectly performs Trump's revelation that he takes hydroxychloroquine
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President Trump didn't really shock anyone Monday when he revealed he's been taking hydroxychloroquine as an apparent preventative measure against COVID-19. But given the performative way Trump described his regimen while health experts listening in shook their heads, well, Sarah Cooper just had to step in.
The comedian has been finding tons of fodder in Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, lip-synching his comments and acting out auxiliary characters' presumed reactions to the outrageous things the president says. In this case, Cooper plays a disbelieving health care worker and a gleeful child accepting hydroxychloroquine like candy, along with the president. Watch it all below. Kathryn Krawczyk
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
