Who is America? episode 5 LIVE: Corey Lewandoswki - Donald Trump's former campaign manager latest to be fooled

Following Joe Arpaio and Roy Moore, another Trump ally is in the show's crosshairs

Who Is America: Sacha Baron Cohen talks to Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski about fascism

Showtime and Sacha Baron Cohen's Who is America? reaches its antepenultimate episode tonight, its main target being Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

Posing as his far-right conspiracy theorist and "citizen journalist" character Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., PhD, Baron Cohen brings up Charlottesville and adds insult to injury after Trump's infamous "both sides" comment.

"Why should the president pick a side between anti-fascists and fascists; he's the president of all people?" Ruddick Jr., asks Lewandowski in a trailer for the episode, to which he noncommittally muses: "There is a place and a time to disagree with people everywhere, okay. You don't have to agree with people. You have to respect them [though], you can't be attacking them."

Sheriff Joe Arpaio responds to controversial Who Is America appearance

​Lewandowski, who was muscled out of the campaign manager job in June 2016 by Paul Manafort (who is currently on trial for tax evasion, bank fraud, money laundering and more), famously responded on-air to a news anchor brings up the case of a 10-year-old immigrant girl with Down syndrome who had been forcibly taken from her mother and put in a cage a under the Trump administration's family separation policy by saying: "Womp womp."

We don't know who else will feature in tonight's episode - possibly Sarah Palin, who admitted to having been duped by Baron Cohen, though according to a Showtime boss "there are several people who have thrown themselves in front of buses that may not be heading their way" (their interviews simply didn't make the cut).

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[13 August 2018 03:18 · Christopher Hooton]

"Maple donuts do not join Antifa." You heard it hear first.

[13 August 2018 03:21 · Christopher Hooton]

Erran Morad is Who is America?'s MVP for sure

[13 August 2018 03:23 · Christopher Hooton]

So many wonderful things have been bellowed on this show, my favourite still being last week's "HERE COMES PORK!"

[13 August 2018 03:26 · Christopher Hooton]

Unbelievable. He's escaped a beheading with head.

[13 August 2018 03:29 · Christopher Hooton]

Youth Shooters of America is hardly the NRA (it has impressed by Erran. It's what makes him so effective, whereas with Ruddick etc they're ready to distance themselves after like two questions.

[13 August 2018 03:30 · Christopher Hooton]

Just to be clear, there is very little research to back this up as an effective anti-beheading measure:

[13 August 2018 03:31 · Christopher Hooton]

A middling episode tonight, though I did enjoy OMGWhizzBoyOMG!'s pivot to fratricide.

[13 August 2018 03:40 · Christopher Hooton]

Full review to follow shortly.

[13 August 2018 03:43 · Christopher Hooton]

Silence from Lewandowski on Twitter so far. In fairness I don't imagine being soft on fascism and genocide poses too much of a threat to his Fox News pundit work, best just to skip past it.

[13 August 2018 04:17 · Christopher Hooton]

No photos of "DJ Solitary'"s fire first performance at Sway nightclub on its social media I see...