Since Zondag met Lubach, a Dutch comedy show, made an absurd video saying they want to be put second after President Trump vowed to put "America first," comedians throughout Europe joined to make videos to "compete" for second place.
The Dutch comedians in their video, imitating President Trump's voice and speaking style, present a very simple and clear idea to Trump that they want him to put the Netherlands second.
"We totally understand it's going to be America first, but can we just say, 'The Netherlands second?'" the video asks.
The video elaborated on many reasons why President Donald Trump should chew over the idea. However every point contains a joke pertaining to the new American president.
The video introduces the Netherland as having the best pony park and ponies in the world. It says to President Trump that "you can ride them, you can date them, you can grab them by the pony, it's fantastic," a line mocking Trump's inappropriate words about women caught on the video.
It also says the Netherland has the Afsluitdijk, a major causeway. "It's a great, great wall that we built to protect us from all the water from Mexico", a joke mocking Trump's decision to build a wall along America's Mexican boarder.
The Dutch clip went viral and its Trump-imitating format was adopted by comedy shows of other European counties that also take to the stage to make fun of President Trump. So, many spoof videos appeared overnight in Europe that were addressed to President Trump. Switzerland, Portugal, Lithuania, Denmark and Germany were among the first.
"The videos use rhetoric inspired by the president's speeches and mockingly talk about national pride, praising their country and talking about non-serious matters", BBC comments.
Here are the highlights of other videos.
Denmark's video makes reference to Trump's executive orders and environmental policy. It said, "We have modern super mills that produce nice, clean, renewable energy, don't worry. We can turn them into oil mills if you want. No problem!"
The Italian video tells President Trump: "If you need a wall, Italy is the best place to ask! We have the best mafia in the world. We can build your wall in three days."
The German video says ironically that Germany held two world wars in the last one hundred years and they were the best world wars in the world.
A user of Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, said that the German video warns America to learn a lesson from history, and the Italian one is also a reminder to other European countries. The videos are simply trying to poke fun and the jokes are not offensive.
A website called Who Wants to be Second? collects such videos made by the worldwide comedians. According to the website, besides Europe, countries in Africa (Morocoo, Namibia), the Middle East (Iran, Israel) and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand) also made such videos. Right now, there are altogether 24 of these videos, among which 18 are of Europe.
