Lisa Kudrow’s Comeback and the Post-Truth Presidency: Caroline Levit Melts Under the Heat

Lisa Kudrow, star of Friends and The Comeback, just made one hell of a comeback herself—and presidential spokesperson Caroline Levit is not happy. Liar Barbie is melting under the heat. Welcome back to Occupy Democrats, I’m David Reddish.

Sociologists now call the Trump years the “post-truth era”—a time when feelings and wishful thinking often outweigh facts. To be fair, this trend started during the Bush years, when Stephen Colbert coined the term “truthiness.” But the Trump administration took it to an iconic, cringe-worthy new level.

Remember Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts” moment? Four out of five of the statements she made were objectively false. Alternative facts aren’t facts—they’re falsehoods. That Crypt Keeper moment still makes some of us sick.

Fast forward to today: White House spokesperson Caroline Levit has picked up the torch. She gives press briefings that are, frankly, exhausting. Watching her speak, you might wonder: how does she sleep at night? How much longer before she either lands a show on Newsmax or ends up in a padded room, still giving briefings to the orderlies?

Levit’s statements are often a masterclass in doublespeak:

“President absolutely supports peaceful protests… He does not support assaulting law enforcement officers… Unfortunately for Democrats, that line has not been made clear and they’ve allowed this unrest and violence to continue, and the president has had to step in.”

Every word is carefully chosen to confuse, deflect, and rewrite reality—like a Black Mirror episode come to life. And speaking of which, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones just dropped a clip from their new Netflix mockumentary Death to 2020, and it’s merciless:

“The whole impeachment thing was baseless… the only real evidence of that is a transcript… What transcript? You just mentioned a transcript. Check your tape… There’s no such place as Ukraine. I choose to believe there isn’t.”

The parody is savage, in the best way possible. Kudrow’s delivery is dead-on, skewering the administration’s version of reality, from the pandemic denial to the “he won the popular vote” claims. It’s absurd—and that’s exactly why it’s funny.

Watching these parodies, you can’t help but think: our politics are already so absurd that satire feels almost unnecessary… but somehow, Kudrow makes it shine. Meanwhile, Levit is probably somewhere, pillow in hand, furious that someone dared make fun of her spin machine.

Death to 2020 may or may not be a masterpiece, but this clip alone is a taste of the comedic roasting the Trump administration so richly deserves. Bring on the parodies. Lord knows we all need a laugh.

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