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Donald Trump might have hit a setback on his way to Make America Great Again—he's currently down in the polls after his awful comments about women and Sunday night's debate—but he's well on his way to making TV great again. Specifically Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which just announced an upcoming episode will feature a composite character based on the Republican presidential hopeful. The episode will be centered around an investigation led by Olivia Benson (aka Mariska Hargitay) into a politician "whose campaign goes haywire when several women go public with damaging accusations," as Buzzfeed reports.
As for which actor will inhabit the mind of said politician, the frontrunner is Gary Cole, according to Variety. His character is reportedly “a wealthy and boorish man who makes a run for the White House.” What Cole lacks in self-tanner and poufy hair he makes up for in experience, since he's played a presidential nominee before on West Wing.
This isn't the first time the long-running show has taken inspiration from real-life events. Ask any fan: the show has based episodes on true cases more a dozen times, from Mary Kay Letourneau, the principle made famous for entering into a relationship with a 6th grader, to Tanya Kach, a Pittsburgh teen that was kidnapped and forced to become a sex slave. They even tackled the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. However, this might be the first time they've issued the special disclaimer “as a reminder SVU is fiction,” as NBC publicist Sharon Pannozzo told Buzzfeed.
The women who will appear in the Trump-themed episode are a mystery as of now, but it would be a missed opportunity if at least one of them wasn't styled in a pussybow shirt.
Source: http://www.glamour.com/story/donald-trump-law-and-order-episode
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