The world is a bad reality show right now so we imagined GOP politicians as MTV's 'Next' contestants

MTV presents "The Government"
By Tyler Schmall  on 
The world is a bad reality show right now so we imagined GOP politicians as MTV's 'Next' contestants
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2017 has been a bona fide hellscape of a year. Donald Trump is President of the United States, there's a very extremely real possibility of a nuclear war breaking out over a tweet, and there's a revolving door of Presidential Cabinet members who are constantly being forced to resign. It feels like a bad, feebly-produced reality show scripted by the world's laziest writers.

Which reminded me of the greatest worst reality show of all time: Next on MTV.

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Sitting in a room and yelling "NEXT!" whenever a member of his staff has to resign because of Russian ties or committing perjury feels exactly like how Donald Trump treats his hiring process.

So I took it upon myself and imagined the GOP's brightest stars as contestants on MTV's Next.

Mike Pence

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Steve Bannon

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Paul Ryan

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Ben Carson

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Jeff Sessions

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Kellyanne Conway

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Mitch McConnell

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Ted Cruz

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Tyler Schmall

Tyler Schmall is a humor writer based in NYC and a friend of yours. You can follow him on Twitter @tylerschmall where he has been known to post "tweets."


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