Donald Trump has inspired a variety of pop culture mashups this election, but perhaps none are more striking than this comparison of the GOP nominee to B.P. Richfield, the resident tyrannical triceratops on ’90s sitcom “Dinosaurs.”
YouTuber Matt Orfalea made the case in a new video that he “has stumbled upon the most accurate representation of a Donald Trump presidency in the most unlikely of places,” and proceeded to compare Richfield’s behavior in the live-action puppet series, created by Michael Jacobs and Bob Young, to Trump’s.
For those not familiar with the series that ran for four seasons on ABC between 1991 and 1994, Richfield — voiced by the late, great “Jeffersons” star Sherman Hemsley — was the ill-tempered boss of protagonist Earl Sinclair, a Tyrannosaurus rex raising a family in a modern world run by talking dinosaurs.
Orfalea noticed Trump and Richfield are both corporate TV bosses who have a similar vocabulary (“You’re fired!”), are quick to raise their voice, share the view that they’re never wrong, and they even have an identical solution to an issue they both feel very passionate about: illegal immigration.
“All of our current economic problems are traceable to one source: 4-leggers,” Richfield said in the series. “They have been coming over here for years from the other side of the swamp, insinuating themselves into our communities with their decadent 4-legged ways.”
Richfield’s plan on the show is simple: build an “Anti 4-Legger Floating Swamp Wall.”
The dinosaur capitalist finished his pitch by saying, “So that those stinking 4-leggers can’t sneak over here and undermine our sacred free enterprise system.”
Sound familiar?
Watch the video above to see other striking similarities, including both businessmen-turned-politicians displaying aggression when interrupted, contempt for government spending on education, interest in increasing military spending, and faith in trickle-down economics.