Streep’s chairwoman, Orlean, similarly fuses elements of other political figures across the spectrum, from the fact that she was seen in a photo hugging former President Bill Clinton and somewhat copying his folksy mannerism, to her oft-discussed smoking habit, which she first tried to hide on the political campaign trail. This, in turn, mimics former President Barack Obama’s worst little secret. Just like Obama, she is used to being photographed with celebrities. Obama also tended to trust experts from Ivy League schools as the most credible, much to the disdain of the left when it came to appointing conventional Harvard thinkers like Larry Summers as Council director. National Economics from the White House during the Great Recession. .
Even her first “scandal” as a woman who, according to her son, became famous for being a Playboy the centerfold at the time looks like a play on former Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts, the Republican politician who shocked the political elite when he captured the Senate seat from Ted Kennedy after Kennedy’s death in 2009 – and despite the fact that its bare central page spread in Cosmopolitan magazine was dredged up during the campaign.
Jason Orlean’s inspirations from Jonah Hill
Overall, Jonah Hill’s character in Don’t look up is nothing short of a Frankenstein monster-style seam of reputations and rumors surrounding Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
First introduced as President Orlean’s utterly disinterested and arrogant White House chief of staff, we eventually learn that Jason is his actual son. While President Trump has never enough had the audacity to name one of his children (or their spouses) as his chief of staff, according to various reports on the Trump White House, he might as well have done so. Particularly in the first year and counting of the Trump presidency, reports have consistently portrayed Trump’s son-in-law Kushner and his daughter Ivanka as leaders of a competing White House apparatus that worked against the first leader. Trump’s failed cabinet minister, Reince Priebus. .
Although their roles in running the presidency allegedly faded in subsequent years, the son-in-law remained President Trump’s fixer and man of ideas. In our own real life Don’t look up experience in 2020, Trump appointed Kushner to oversee much of the federal response to COVID-19 this spring, despite his son-in-law’s absolute lack of experience handling viruses, pandemics or national emergencies.
Even more damning, reports emerged alleging that Kushner’s team spent months coddling the president’s political desire to downplay the virus by concluding that “because the virus had hit the blue states hardest, a plan national was unnecessary and would make no sense politically”. An anonymous expert reportedly said, “Politicians believed that because he was relegated to Democratic states, they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy.