Viral Trump impersonator Sarah Cooper is getting her own Netflix special

POTUS is going to LOVE this.
August 13, 2020 2:47 p.m. EST
August 21, 2020 9:13 a.m. EST
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American President Donald Trump is obsessed with high ratings, but he’s never had his own Netflix special. Now it looks like he’s finally going to get both… er, kind of. TikTok Trump impersonator Sarah Cooper is officially getting her own comedy-variety special on Netflix and if her viral videos are anything to go by, we bet the show will feature just a smidgen of her patented Trump mockery.Cooper, who got a little taste of the big leagues with her guest-hosting stint on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this week, will helm a show called Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine, which Netflix has described as a, “variety special full of vignettes dealing with issues of politics, race, gender, class, and other light subjects.”The show, which is set to premiere in autumn, will also have special guest interviews and sketches. Actress Natasha Lyonne (of Orange is the New Black and Russian Doll fame) will direct and act as executive producer. Cooper herself and Saturday Night Live alum (and on-call Kamala Harris impersonator) Maya Rudolph, who is a partner in Lyonne’s production company Animal Pictures, will executive produce as well. Though she actually scored a Twitter block from the president way back in 2017, until Cooper started parroting the president on TikTok, she was an aspiring comedian and relatively inoffensive Google employee. As she revealed in her Vanity Fair profile in July, aside from aggressively responding to Trump tweets, she was all about finding consensus in the workplace. "Being a Black woman, I could never get away with talking like that in a meeting, let alone as president of the United States," she said of the original audio to her videos.[video_embed id='2013356']RELATED: Ciara celebrates Black excellence in ‘Rooted’ video [/video_embed]Cooper skyrocketed to viral internet fame in the spring when the 42-year-old took to TikTok with her lip-syncing of Trump’s often rambling and incoherent soundbites. Her hilarious lampooning and satirizing of the POTUS even has had some speculating she’s the impetus behind his wish to ban TikTok in the United States, something Cooper herself couldn’t help but mock.Cooper’s TikTok “How to Medical” has been viewed more than 20 million times on the platform.[video_embed id='2012763']MORE TV NEWS: 'Lovecraft Country' cast explore supernatural and real-life horrors in new series [/video_embed]

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