This Is The Dream Cast For The ‘Fire And Fury’ TV Adaptation

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By Jenny Singer January 18, 2018

“Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump Whitehouse” will be developed into a TV show, it was announced on Wednesday. It would be “unpatriotic,” even bordering on “treasonous,” for us to not speculate about our dream cast. Here are our picks for actors who could portray the wild and wacky characters Wolff dreamed up* in the Trump White House.

*observed

Donald Trump: James Spader

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Sometimes it takes a real genius to portray… Donald Trump. Spader has a knack for creating characters who combine lunacy with raging egoism. Forget Baldwin, we need an incisive portrayal, not a broad caricature. Give the people Spader.

Melania Trump: Mila Kunis

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Melania, meet Mila. The younger, Jewish you.

Ivanka Trump: Stormy Daniels

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This one was a no-brainer.

Jared: An unknown ingenue plucked from the Yeshiva University freshmen class

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Any apple-cheeked, nervously giggling bar mitzvah boy might shine in this role.

Steve Bannon: Alec Baldwin

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Alec Baldwin does a meh Trump impression, but an amazing impression of an aging millionaire who is obsessed with defending Woody Allen’s honor. He’s a character actor, not a caricaturist, and he would do great things with Bannon.

John Kelly: Jk Simmons

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Wouldn’t this be delightful?

Hope Hicks: Kerri Russell

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Personally, I am ready for a Hope Hicks-only feature film (no doubt “Fire And Fury” will inspire a few decades of spinoff content.)

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Sarah Silverman

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Sarah. Sarah. Synergy. Silverman should start writing her Emmy-acceptance speech right now. I hope she holds nothing back.

Jenny Singer is a writer for the Forward. You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter @jeanvaljenny

Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.

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