Donald Drumpf Theatre: How Authoritarian Is We? or When They Kick At Your Front Door, How You Gonna Come?

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who was illegally deported from the United States on March 15, 2025, in what the Trump administration called "an administrative error."“Everybody's singing with their hand on their heartAbout deeds done in the darkest hoursThat's just the sort of catchy little melodyTo get you singing in the showersOh, I know that I'm ungratefulI've got it lying on a plateAnd I'm not buying my share of souvenirsYou can stand to attentionYou can pray to your uncleOnly get that chicken out of hereEveryone gets armbands and 3-D glassesSome are in the back roomAnd they're taking those night classesYou think they're so dumb, you think they're so funnyWait until they've got you running”—Elvis Costello, “Night Rally”This week: How Authoritarian Is We? or When They Kick At Your Front Door, How You Gonna Come?” The two presidents can whisk anyone away to prison without due process and with administrative errors this week on the “Donald Drumpf Theatre” radio show. Opening theme includes clips from Rod Serling; Bill Cosby; Donald Drumpf; Eric Cartman; Richard Nixon; Kent Brockman; and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Thanks for the songs from Golden Earring ("Twilight Zone"), Napoleon XIV (“They’re Coming to Take Me Away Hahaa”), The Clash (“Guns of Brixton”), Elvis Costello and the Attractions (“Night Rally”); Prince (“When Doves Cry”), and Randy Rainbow (“Fees, Fees, Fees”). Clips and excerpts from Jon Stewart; Stephen Colbert; Kaitlan Collins; Pam Bondi; Nayib Bukele; Roy Wood Jr.; Michael Ian Black; Kristin Soltis; Eugene Mirman; Amber Ruffin; Laura Ingraham; Marco Rubio; James Austin Johnson; John Berman; Stuart Varney; Lester Holt; Wolf Blitzer; Kasie Hunt; Jake Tapper; Colin Jost; Michael Che; Chloe Fineman; Mikey Day; Beck Bennett; John Oliver; Ted Koppel; Fozzie Bear; and Jimmy Kimmel. Episode 233."Donald Drumpf Theatre" is the weekly radio theatre show about a fictional presidency, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy with song parodies and covers all mixed in a style similar to Spike Jones, Dickie Goodman, Dr. Demento, or Richard Foreman with comedy skits, sketches, radio waves, and more. Produced by Tom Roe. Make sense of the unreality here. Clips and songs are from some of the sources below.RespondSend items, press releases, announcements, letters to the editor, angry responses, gentle praise, images, sound, and more for this column to:[email protected] is also encouraged to make comments on this site. Interact! Please get in touch if you feel something is incorrect. If you like this radio show, please subscribe. Please consider getting this new multi-media project started with a lifetime subscription. Thank you — Tom Roe. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomroeradio.substack.com/subscribe