“Today he came out in support of a pedophile for Senate,” Berger says in the midst of Alabama’s special election race for senate. “I mean that’s insane. That’s not a partisan issue. Before this everybody would agree that you would not elect a pedophile to the Senate.” “I don’t find anything of him funny anymore,” Berger says. “You know, if I find something funny I’m laughing because it’s so painful to see. I don’t want to highlight or accentuate any of those moments that may actually be funny because in the scheme of things he’s the president and he’s actually hurting people’s lives.” Berger continues to use the platform to highlight the inane to the insane of the Trump administration. The reaction he receives from his videos might be helping him battle his Trump fatigue. “People tell me that a lot of my edits are kind of a healing thing or even just a way to cope with the insanity where they can watch that and say, ‘I’m not alone. I’m not going crazy as the only one that feels this way.’” In Berger’s more recent work, Trump’s mannerisms–hand gestures and facial ticks among them–are still fair game. The editing style that worked so well during the GOP race remains largely intact. Though Berger has been more focused on the issues in his latest work. In his most recent video, he uses the State of the Union as a comment on the hypocrisy surrounding Trump’s proposed immigration policies. “He’s causing so much harm to this country that I just want to be very careful how I present my videos and not make light of that because it is serious what he’s doing,” he says. “He only stands for himself, he doesn’t care one way or the other. So I don’t look at Trump as being a partisan issue. He just figured out that he could con people on the right more likely than people on the left.” While his videos might help some cope, there’s often outrage on the other side of that. That’s when Berger knows he’s on to something. “When people are commenting and they’re just attacking what I look like or getting personal with me, I know I did something right. I hit on a nerve, and I touched on the truth,” he says.
