I Can’t Stop Watching This Bizarre Donald Trump Ad

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From LA-based special effects wizard, Mike Diva, comes this startling fever dream: a parody Trump advertisement imagined as a tricked-out Japanese TV spot. “I made a commercial for my senpai—future world president Donald Trump,” Diva wrote on Twitter yesterday. My favorite part is when she flies on a rainbow into the floating Trump cave island, but you’ve got to stick around for the sensational ending: Trump as an all-powerful comic book Transformer, flying into orbit to destroy Earth, before an affectionate voice-over proclaims, “Trumpu, 2016.”