A caller who claimed to be Virginia’s John Barron speaking to CSPAN after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariffs is going viral because the Internet is impressed by his near-perfect impersonation of President Donald Trump.
In the 1980s and 1990s Trump used the pseudonym John Barron to plant stories with journalists, and the Internet had a good time listening to “John Barron” rage against the Supreme Court ruling. Shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision, CSPAN opened its phone lines inviting callers to voice their opinions about the big hit Trump’s tariffs took. “John in Virginia, Republican, let’s hear from you,” CSPAN host Greta Brawner said before Barron began speaking.
When he started speaking, it was a moment of disbelief because he matched the President’s voice almost perfectly.
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“This is John Barron,” the caller said. “Look, this is practically the worst decision you’ve ever made in your life. And Jack would agree with me, right? But this is a terrible decision. And you have Hakeem Jeffries, who’s a dope! And you have Chuck Schumer, who can’t cook a cheeseburger. Of course these people are happy! Of course these are happy people, but real Americans wouldn’t be happy.”
“She’s devastated by this. And you had the woman before — I’m assuming it’s a woman, she’s a Democrat — but she’s … devastated by this,” John Barron said, without missing any of President Trump’s behavior.
“Maybe it wasn’t Trump, but the fact that we can’t completely rule him out says a lot,” he wrote the Republican position against Trump. “Next in line…Don from Queens,” one user quipped. “There is an 18% chance that the Supreme Court will force John Barron to refund the tariffs,” Polymarket chimed in without her latest betting prediction. Another wrote: “This can’t be real.” One user added: “If this is true, it’s frankly surreal. A former president is allegedly calling C-SPAN under the old alias of John Barron and spewing insults like calling Hakeem Jeffries a drug addict. It sounds more like political satire than it does in real life. The fact that John Barron is a well-known pseudonym linked to Donald Trump makes it even stranger. American politics never runs out of plot twists.”
