‘Doctor Who’ star David Tennant reads mean Scottish tweets for Donald Trump
“Doctor Who” star David Tennant isn’t buying Donald Trump’s Scotland comments following the Brexit win in the EU referendum. The Scottish actor helped the titular presenter of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” read anti-Trump tweets, telling the US presidential candidate how wrong he was about Scotland.
Trump congratulated the UK for voting 52-48 to “Leave” the European Union last week. He even boasted that just like how Scotland “took their country back,” they would also take the US back.
Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2016
The problem with his tweet is that Scotland overwhelmingly voted not to leave the EU. All 32 areas of the country voted “Remain,” as did Northern Ireland and London. Trump, as it appeared, confused Scotland with England, something that Scots are not happy with. This prompted social media users to inform Trump, in their own unique way, what they thought of Trump and his blunder.
Bee has tackled the issue in her show on Monday, enlisting Tennant’s help in reading some replies from the Scots.
“You’ve just confused England with Scotland. They love that!” Bee said sarcastically before introducing Tennant to read the tweet replies. “I wish I have a real Scotsman to read the tweets to you.”
Tennant, who famously played the Tenth Doctor in the British cult series “Doctor Who,” told Bee it’s his pleasure to do so. He then proceeded to read the tweets, almost all of which require censoring.
“Scotland voted to stay, you numpty,” Tennant read one tweet.
When Bee asked if there’s anything he could do to turn back the time and prevent the Brexit from happening, a clip of Tennant’s Time Lord character was played, in which he fervently told his companion Donna (Catherine Tate) that he couldn’t go back to save a family in Pompeii even if he wanted to.
The segment also featured clips from another “Doctor Who” star, Peter Capaldi, who plays the current Twelfth Doctor. In the clips from the film “In the Loop,” Capaldi, who is also Scottish, hostilely told an American (James Gandolfini) to “don’t ever f------ call me English again.”
YouTube/Full Frontal with Samanta Bee
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