How Donald Trump Won The White House: Jonathan Pie's American Pie

It’s the US midterm elections, and spoof news reporter, Jonathan Pie, is sent across the pond on the campaign trail.

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[namefinder]

It's sad to see that a comedy piece on the BBC seems to be better at analysing the election than their news teams are.

[tomralph]

Jesus Christ, some bloody sense being spoken about the Trump phenomenon from someone who leans left.

[SanRemoMotelBar]

Good to see Pie getting the airtime we all know he deserves.

[tzuyd]

I'm surprised BBC hasn't denounced this as hate speech yet.

[dsugimoto]

Jonathan Pie is the best political commentator anywhere. Thank you, Tom Walker for creating him and Britain for sharing him with us. Most sensible analysis I've ever seen. Those hacks that pass for journalists on American cable news networks should be required to watch this and write a high school level paper on this (if they know how to write and analyze at all.)

[ArturoPRADA-ORTIZ-fyfj]

Best Comedian journalist ever. Very clever geezer...

[DeistPaladin]

Six years later and we on the left haven’t learned a damn thing. You could replay this entire video changing only “Hillary” to “Kamala” and every point applies to our current situation.

[AoyagiAichou]

Ooooh, Pie is on BBC? Since when? This is excellent news.

[TheFluffyDuck]

I love this guy. He is the only center left moderate in the media it seeks these days.

[PatioRS]

this was refreshingly accurate, it's nice to see the bitter reality being confronted on a mainstream outlet like this

[SusannaSaunders]

Well said! 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👍 loved the punch line "and that is on you".

[KHasan-deyq]

Seriously, never heard a better explanation of 2016 US election than this

[RBGHfam]

Some Americans were sick of taking it in both directions, so they chose a rock to the window instead. It might have been a lop sided rock... but it was still a rock.

[Blackerer]

2:00 oh the ducks timing was perfect. it should be a stand-up...err... paddling comedian!

[lukasklister]

Somehow the best piece of serious journalism that I’ve seen for a long time!

[DavidAllen-fojl]

Hello Guv'. That was the best piece to camera I've seen on the subject, and it had to be comedy for you to make it. I'll watch you over mainstream any day. Your commentary is the best. Bloody well done.

[adamphillips]

it's so rare that someone in the MSM actually nails it like this guy.

[krishm]

Hit the nail, right on the head! Fantastic summary!

[Degenevesting]

"Its a neat trick if you can hold a biro that way"

[gdfggggg]

A lefty that is willing to appreciate the other sides reasoning is rare.