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(speaking Dutch)
- Is that foreign news? Is that what I'm watching here?
- Where is he from? His accent's cute.
- (anchor) Donald J. Trump.
- I'm so tired of talking about him.
- I know everyone has their own opinion,
but I don't really like Donald Trump.
(anchor speaking Dutch)
- (laughing)
No, he basically said that though.
(anchor speaking Dutch)
- (Trump) From this day forward,
it's going to be only America first.
America...
- Also, whatever comes out of his mouth, I don't take seriously.
(anchor speaking Dutch)
- Oh, I'm excited.
- This is going to be hilarious. I can already tell.
(anchor speaking Dutch)
- (voice-over) This is a message from the government of the Netherlands.
- Oh my gosh.
- (voice-over in Trump-ish accent) Dear Mr. President,
welcome to this introduction video about the Netherlands.
It's gonna be a-- - They're mocking him.
- (laughing) They're talking like him too.
- (voice-over) We speak Dutch.
It's the best language in Europe. - (laughing)
- Whoever's speaking in this is doing a great job.
- This is so funny because this is what he actually sounds like.
- (voice-over) All the other languages failed.
Danish, total disaster. - (laughing)
- (voice-over) German is not even a real language.
It's fake. It's a fake language. - It's fake.
- (voice-over) We've got pony park Slagharen.
- (laughing) What?
- I want to go to a pony park.
- (voice-over) It's got to be the best pony park in the world.
It's true. They're the best ponies. They are.
You can ride them, you can date them,
you can grab 'em by the pony.
- Oh my god.
- (voice-over) You can grab 'em by the pony.
- Oh shit.
- Oh man, grab 'em by the pony should be just the title
of everything ever.
- (voice-over) This is the Afsluitdijk.
It's a great, great wall.
- This is amazing.
- Oh, of course, the big wall.
- (voice-over) ...to protect us from all the water from Mexico.
- (laughing)
- I love the Netherlands.
- This is great. I enjoy this a lot.
- (voice-over) We've got Madurodam,
which is the greatest miniature town in the world.
It's great.
- Man, I wish I was from the Netherlands.
I'd probably get these references a lot more.
- (voice-over) And the squares, they're so small,
you don't even need many people to fill them.
- Hoo!
- (voice-over) The squares, they're so small,
you don't even need many people to fill them.
- (laughing)
- (voice-over) In December, we've got this scandalous tradition
of Black Pete. - Oh, yeah, I've actually heard about this.
It's messed up.
- (voice-over) ...the most racist thing you've ever seen.
- Oh my gosh! What the hell?
- (voice-over) We also have a disabled politician
for you to make fun of. - (laughing)
It's so bad.
- (voice-over) She's from the Ministry of Silly Walks.
You can do a great impersonation of her.
Can't wait to see it.
People tell us, very important people,
they tell us we've got the best tax evasion system
God ever created.
It's just-- - That's something Trump
would be very interested in, tax evasion.
- (voice-over) And last, but not least,
we've got a great, great, great dependency on the United States.
It's huge. - It's huge!
- (voice-over) If you screw NATO,
you're going to make our problems great again.
They're gonna be huge.
- Oh god.
This is scary because then it's like, if he really does
mess things up, that's it.
- (voice-over) We totally understand. It's going to be America first.
But can we just say the Netherlands second?
- (laughing)
- That's amazing.
- (voice-over) Thank you for watching and best wishes.
We've got the best wishes-- - The best wishes.
- (voice-over) They're great. It's true.
- Honestly, I love it.
Comedy to call out Trump, like, it's great.
- That was so well-made and just the perfect amount of snarky shade.
It was beautiful.
- We're used to us making fun of ourselves, you know,
but having other people make fun of us, that hurts.
It hurts right here.
- I want to go the Netherlands. They seem great.
That's amazing.
That's a way to get a political message across,
is with comedy.
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- (FBE) So this was a clip from a satirical TV news show
in the Netherlands.
What did you think of the clip? - It was, you know, pretty clever.
- It was pretty great. Not gonna lie.
Whoever was doing the voice-over was great.
- The beginning was kind of funny, like referencing
some of the really inappropriate stuff that he's said,
but the ending was really disrespectful, I guess.
- I loved it.
It was really reminiscent of The Daily Show,
which I love watching.
- It was beautiful.
I'm very upset that our country is kind of the laughingstock
of the world at the moment, but it makes for some great videos.
- (FBE) Discussions about President Trump have been very divisive,
but this one seems to not have as much negativity,
where it seems both Trump supporters and non-supporters
appreciate the humor in the clip.
What do you think it is about this video
that isn't resulting in so much negativity?
- I think it's because it's not making fun of who he is as a person.
It's making fun of what has happened,
and I think we can all laugh at events
rather than a certain person that you think highly of.
- It didn't bring up anything that could offend anyone.
- It was actually less, you know, actually really going at him.
I feel it was more like light-hearted.
- It still, you know, promotes Trump's ideas
of America first and all that.
While they're making fun of Trump and his stuff,
in a creative way, it's still promoting his political agenda.
- So many other satire clips are one-sided
and it's all like, "Oh, if you like this, then you're an ugly racist fat pig."
And if you're not this, if you're not that--
and this is just like, hey, here's what's happening.
Here is exactly what's happening
and, you know, they're not bashing anyone.
They're just saying this is what's going on
and we're just asking please don't do that.
- (FBE) So Trump has been president for a couple of weeks now.
As a teen in the US in this moment,
how do you feel about his presidency so far?
- It's been a rough ride so far.
- I support Donald Trump, but to be honest,
I haven't been paying much attention to all these issues lately.
- Personally, I don't have necessarily any problem with it,
but I definitely don't like it.
From my perspective-- I plan on joining the military one day,
so I just care about whether or not he's going to
get us into a war or not because that's going to be my job
and I feel like, because of where his ego is at,
there's a good chance that's going to be a war
that we're going to end up fighting for no real reason whatsoever.
There's so much turmoil happening, you know, this quickly,
like you said, just a couple weeks into the presidency.
Imagine what the next four years are going to be like
of the same level of, you know, everybody being on edge around the world
about what's going to happen next.
- I have enough faith in the whole US government system
with separation of powers,
but the fact that he's already put in so many executive orders
for the Muslim ban and for the wall that's going to around Mexico,
it's like he shouldn't be allowed to do this
and it's making me lose hope in the whole politics system,
which sucks because I love politics.
But it's like, why are there so many loopholes
and why is he allowed to do this?
This is a democracy. This shouldn't be allowed.
- Everything he's doing is incredibly wrong
for us as a species.
He's trying to make us a country, and he's trying to make America great,
and he's trying to make us this force,
and that's not what we're supposed to be.
We're supposed to be a world, and, yes, we have different factions
and, yes, we're divided by lines, but we're all a species,
we're all people, and we should grow together,
not try to grow as one by pushing something else down.
- He says let's make America great again,
but he's taking away everything that makes America great,
like our relationships with other countries,
America being so forgiving
and so open to other people's religions and ideals.
That's what makes America great.
That is what America was founded on.
I want to hope for the best.
I don't want to be like, oh, it's all going to be bad
because I don't want America to fail.
So I'm just here, you know, whatever happens,
I'm just going to try to support what should be right.
- (FBE) The Netherlands is not the only country
to express these kind of feelings toward our president.
A lot of foreign countries seem a bit uncertain
towards how Trump will act.
How do you feel when other countries feel the need
to make responses like this to our president?
- Um, it's like-- I mean, did we expect anything different?
I knew from the beginning, if he actually made it to the office,
there would be so much controversy.
I think we need to still give him more time
to, you know, see if he can actually make America great again.
- It's kind of saddening.
I mean, I will say, in the past, I don't think that we had
any sort of massive response around the world to a president election.
- Who is president doesn't just affect us.
He needs to deal with foreign affairs and that sort of thing,
and when you have our allied countries that are freaking out
because he's our president, that's not a good sign.
They should feel very secure in what we're doing
and the fact that they're scared should make us scared.
- (FBE) Finally, in the past, Donald Trump has been very critical
of comedy that comes at his expense.
So how do you think he'd respond to this video
and of you reacting to this video?
- Oh, he'll probably hate it.
- It could go either way.
I don't think he'd be happy with me.
Sorry, President Trump.
- He's kind of a little baby on social media sometimes
and he could definitely tone it down,
but you have a reactor that supports you.
Please don't disappoint me.
- For the video, I think he would like it
because it's not offensive and it's not really saying
that he's a bad person.
- If he watched it on Teens React, he'd be like, "I don't appreciate
these teens making fun of me.
They're doing wrong. It's wrong."
- As far as, you know, what he'd think of this video,
well, in that sense, then I want to talk directly to you, Mr. Trump.
I challenge you to react to this reaction video
reacting to a video about you, my good sir.
- Any sort of criticism he gets, he immediately shuts it down.
The biggest foundation of the US is freedom of speech,
freedom of press-- we should be allowed to critique the president.
I should be allowed to call him out right now,
so don't you dare take this video down!
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- Bye, guys.
- Hey, guys, what's up?
It's Dallen here from FBE.
Thanks so much for watching this episode of Teens React.
Now if you have any other ideas for episodes like this,
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Thanks, guys.
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