Conan O’Brien and his team are aware that eventually, the Russia scandal currently taking over America will be made into a movie. So they’re getting ahead of the curve and pitched out their cast in a segment on “Conan” Thursday night.
O’Brien went for physical similarities and more serious suggestions first, such as Leah Remini for the lawyer that Donald Trump Jr. met with, but then things took a turn.
Draco Malfoy (not Tom Felton, the actor who played the Harry Potter rival) was pitched to play Eric Trump, while Hillary Swank in “Boys Don’t Cry” was chosen to play Jared Kushner.
But there are only so many actors in Hollywood, so Trump Jr. will be played by a punching dummy and Ivanka will be played by Janice from the Muppets.
Even if TBS started making the film now, it would take many more breaking news developments and many more players before it could be close to complete. In just the past week, news has come out that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer who promised him intel on Hillary Clinton and we even got to see those emails. Then Trump Jr. was asked to testify before the Senate. And thenit was reported Friday that an ex-Soviet counter intelligence officer was at the meeting with Trump Jr. This was all this week.
That’s not even including that Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation after acknowledging that he met with Russia’s ambassador during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, or that Trump himself called the investigation a “witch hunt,” or that… dozens of other developments have occurred since Trump’s inauguration.
This would be a very long movie.
Check out the full casting above.
10 Women Trump Attacked Based on Looks, from Mika Brzezinski to Heidi Klum (Photos)
Donald Trump's "face-lift" jab at "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski was denounced by all sides. But it was far from the first time he has attacked female critics by insulting their looks, as these 13 women prove.
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Mika Brzezinski
Trump tweeted: "How come low I.Q. Crazy Mika...came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!"
Jolie has been named "most beautiful woman in the world" by Vogue, Vanity Fair, and others. But in 2007, Trump deemed the liberal actress and humanitarian unattractive: "I do understand beauty, and she's not."
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Katarina Witt
Not even a champion Olympic figure skater is exempt from Trump's insults. In November 1992, Trump told New York Magazine that Witt "could only be described as attractive if you like a woman with a bad complexion who is built like a linebacker."
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Carly Fiorina
In an attempt to discredit rival Carly Fiorina during the Republican primaries, Trump said in a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?"
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Arianna Huffington
In 2012, he took to Twitter to insult the liberal co-creator of the Huffington Post: ".@ariannahuff is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man- he made a good decision."
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Rosie O'Donnell
Trump said on a 2006 episode of "Entertainment Tonight": "Rosie O'Donnell is disgusting, both inside and out. If you take a look at her, she's a slob...If I were running The View, I'd fire Rosie. I'd look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers and say, 'Rosie, you're fired."
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Alicia Machado
The former Miss Universe said Trump called her "Miss Piggy" and made other disparaging remarks about her body.
Cher
According to The Telegraph, Trump fired back at Cher in 2012 after the singer criticized then-Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. ".@cher--I don’t wear a “rug”—it’s mine. And I promise not to talk about your massive plastic surgeries that didn’t work," he tweeted.
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Heidi Klum
Trump told the New York Times in 2015 that Heidi Klum "sadly" was "no longer a 10." Klum clapped back at Trump's insult with this mocking tweet.
Heidi Cruz
Trump took on rival Ted Cruz by insulting Cruz's wife. Trump compared a less-than-flattering photo of Heidi with a glamor shot of Melania Trump and included the caption, "No need to 'spill the beans.' The images are worth a thousand words."
Donald Trump's "face-lift" jab at "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski was denounced by all sides. But it was far from the first time he has attacked female critics by insulting their looks, as these 13 women prove.