Nov 18, 2024
If you were on X this past Election Day, there’s a good chance you stumbled across one of the most epic pieces of content to grace the internet since Snoop Dogg’s narration of Planet Earth: a frenetic, tightly-wound video edit of Trump and Elon titled “The Final Countdown,” by the user 𝐒🌞(@Esoviz).
Set to a fast-paced, synthwave remix of Europe’s “The Final Countdown,” the edit can best be described as visual Adderall. Anime characters ride into battle donning black MAGA hats. Elon goes Super Saiyan at a Trump rally. Hulk Hogan screams, “This is Donald Trump’s house, brother!” right before the beat drops. It’s enough to make you want to run through a wall, even if you’re not a MAGA diehard.
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