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See it if If you like or hate everything (Donald DRUMPF-REAL LAST NAME). THE BEST PART THAT MADE YOU GASP & THINK WAS THE VERY END!! OMG!!

Don't see it if DON'T LIKE DRUMPF - REAL LAST NAME..NEVER LEGALLY CHANGED (TRUMP-FAKE NAME)...DON'T BOTHER TO SEE IT.

See it if You are opened minded. Not a Trump supporter.

Don't see it if You are easily offended with sexual undertones. Trump supporter.

See it if you would like to see a sometimes sharp take on Donald Trump that tries to explain him by probing his relationships with family members.

Don't see it if you are too tired of Donald Trump to endure sitting through a play about him.

Also It wasn’t easy for me to know how to score this. I think the writing in places is smart, funny & weird in a way that explains Donald Trump better than more conventional analyses. The 1st & last scenes, a long bedtime encounter between the central character & his youngest son, & a haunting by his dad come back from the grave, felt most acute. But there’s also lots of filler, including a too-long scene in which Trump comes into the audience to work it like a Vegas comic. The best stretches of the show play like a sharp psycho-graph of our psycho leader, probing in places (the men's room) that conventional news can’t go. But I realized a few minutes into the show that I am so tired of (disgusted with) the subject that even a smart, different take on the man can no longer engage me. I will continue to follow the daily headlines in self-defense. But I don’t care enough about the sitting president’s soul to happily sit through a full-length play about it.... Read more Read less

See it if you like political satire

Don't see it if you still love trump and do not want to see him being ridiculed. Also, actors are good, but don't expect to see lookalikes or impersonation

Also We thought it would be funnier than it was. We liked it, but didn't love it.... Read more Read less

See it if you have nothing better to do, and want to see every anti-trump play that exists. Only thing funny in this show is the chandelier.

Don't see it if you value your time. I feel bad for the actors, since the script is not funny.

See it if The show needs to be slicker in its story with Trump being such an easy target. The jokes & clever observations are neither funny nor clever

Don't see it if The cast is trying to elevate the mediocre material but it seems like an uphill battle with no successful outcome.

See it if you don't have a life

Don't see it if either the left or right hemisphere of your brain is functioning

See it if If you have very low standards for political satire

Don't see it if If you expect some good insights from a show

Also Many of the jokes reflect Trump circa summer '17 and are noticeably outdated. No excuse for not keeping the script current!
Overall, everything about this show comes off as lame.... Read more Read less

See it if I can’t think of even one reason anyone would like this show

Don't see it if You love theater(of any venue, be it serious or musical) You count your time as valuable

See it if If you have not had enough attacks on the president and enjoy horrible, not even funny humor.

Don't see it if If you like anything that resembles theater. Ensemble was not bad, story, humor was terrible.

See it if You want to see the familiar in a new light. Especially Trump

Don't see it if You are closed minded.

See it if You want something different and out there. Very edgy.

Don't see it if You want to see stuff you're used to.

See it if You want to see theater that is provocative and edgy.

Don't see it if you are easily offended and like respectable shows.

See it if you want engaging satire. funny, creative theater

Don't see it if If you love Trump

See it if You like raunchy smart jokes

Don't see it if You still believe Trump

See it if You want to see things in a new way for something that's been over exposed. Also some great laughs.

Don't see it if You want theater that is straight forwardly polemic.

See it if Sharp political satire of Trump & his clan. Intense, funny & imaginative probe of inner lives beneath the headlines. Theatrical & Edgy.

Don't see it if if you don't like satire or you are literal.

Also small, immediate theater

See it if You need a good laugh and did not vote for Trump.

Don't see it if You voted for Trump and disagree with fact that he is not fit for the job.

See it if If you are fond of mediocre political comedy

Don't see it if If you plan to Make America Great Again

See it if There will never be an end to the mystery that is Trump. So it is good to keep chiseling away at this strange, sad man and this show helps.

Don't see it if You want a finished product; this is not. Some of it is just awful (and needs trimming badly). That said, some of it is simply wonderful.

Also A new Trump "event" by Gil Kofman at the Ars Nova space, always a delightful place to see new works. And the cast works their butts off to create the weird array of people surrounding Trump who, in this production, does not don (sorry about that) the usual mannerisms (no Alec Baldwin style here!). Some of it is just flat and needs serious trimming. There are some very good laughs, and one involving Chris Christie and how he eats meat loaf that will make some cringe, but I loved it. Of strong interest here is the end of the show: what actually happened between Donald when growing up and his very similar father, Fred, who appears here in a wheelchair (which I could have done without). A lot of Donald's lousy behavior could be a result of feeling"unloved", "abused" in whatever ways, and more during his "growth" years. But where did the truly nasty way he treated his son (as depicted here) come from? Enjoyable, but uneven. Find the points you want to make and stick to them.... Read more Read less

See it if ... you like political satire and don't mind watching a performance by good actors some of whom have been miscast for their parts.

Don't see it if ... if you expect to see actors who look and sound like the characters they're impersonating.

See it if you like very small theaters

Don't see it if object to raunchy humor

See it if you love theater and want to try off Broadway, are visiting from out of town, and he is still your president.

Don't see it if you can't leave MSNBC and the late night pundit laughter to focus on the strange reality of the folks running ? the country.

See it if You have no fond love for President Trump. The show has some hilarious moments.

Don't see it if If you are a Trump supporter.

See it if you don't like Trump and would enjoy any form of ridicule aimed at him

Don't see it if you like Trump, are easily offended, and/or want a show that is laugh-out-loud funny.

Also I was excited to see this play, but I left the show disappointed. There were a lot of cringy moments in the play that weren't the result of Trump's rhetoric and not enough laughs. The ending felt incomplete, and I walked away with only a vague notion of the reason behind the events of the play.... Read more Read less