Sounds like "Yahtzee"
Bolt Upright and the Received Opinion team can't quite put their finger on it
BOLT UPRIGHT: Good evening, I’m Bolt Upright, and this is Received Opinion.
[Noises vaguely resembling music. Screen behind UPRIGHT: Image of TRUMP, with a toothbrush mustache and forelock overlay that blinks on and off. The chyron SHADE-DOLF! HINTS OF HITLER? underneath.]
Former President Donald Trump likes to keep ‘em guessing! Last year he raised eyebrows by calling his opponents “vermin” in what some say was a direct reference to the rhetoric of Adolf Hitler — who, for our younger viewers, was a dictator in the 1930s and 40s and, much like Trump, a divisive figure.
[Silent footage of Hitler and TRUMP addressing crowds.]
Now he or someone on his staff has put the phrase “unified reich” in Trump’s campaign literature which, again for the younger viewers, seems to refer to the Third Reich, which Hitler liked to call his Make-Germany-Great movement. We asked for comment from the Trump campaign, and they tersely responded, “Get lost, Untermenschen — ha ha, get it?” This is another Hitler reference. But assuming this is not a coincidence, and we can never rule that out, what does Trump mean by it? Let’s go to our Received Opinion Decision Desk.
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