Last week, whilst assuming the guise of a zany Finnish celebrity by the name of OMGWhizzBoyOMG, Sacha Baron Cohen sat down with Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff and once-convicted racist who ran a self-described “concentration camp” for inmates.
The occasion was Who Is America?, the veteran comic’s prank series for Showtime. During the bit, Baron Cohen got Arpaio to, among other things, accept an “amazing blow job” from his good pal Donald J. Trump, who recently pardoned him. So the question on everyone’s mind was: How would Baron Cohen top it this week? The answer: nail someone even closer to POTUS.
Posing as his alter ego Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., a scuzzy, scooter-bound far-right conspiracy theorist who runs the fictional Infowars-esque website TRUTHBRARY.org, Baron Cohen snookered former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski into an interview.
Even by Trump-orbit standards, Lewandowski is a contemptible parasite. He’s been accused of battering a female reporter and repeatedly slapping singer Joy Villa’s behind, and in June he mocked a separated immigrant child with Down syndrome on national television.
