A Stable Genius is a YouTube series that began in December 2018.
The series satirizes Donald Trump. In each video, a fictionalized version of Donald Trump explains something, usually related to politics or his life. His explanations are short and comedic.
A humannote scripts and animates the videos. An artificial intelligence model trained on Donald Trump's voice and speech patterns generates the voice of Donald Trump.
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A Stable Genius provides examples of:
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In "A Stable Genius Explains Coal", Donald Trump says that coal fuels trains, gives people jobs, and causes global warming. The last of those is more disturbing than the others.
- Bait-and-Switch Comparison: In "A Stable Genius Visits Great Britain", Donald Trump says that Britain will have a state dinner with two guests. "The first owns many palaces after inheriting power from their father and pays absolutely no taxes. And the other is the Queen of England."
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": In "A Stable Genius Explains Bone Spurs", Donald Trump wears a superhero costume with the letters "BS" on it.
- Cargo Ship: In "A Stable Genius Explains Flags", Donald Trump says he is automatically attracted to beautiful American flags. He gropes and kisses flags.
- Content Warnings: "A Stable Genius & The Muller Report." says "** Warning. Presidential Language Advisory**" in the description.
- Expanded States of America: In "A Stable Genius Addresses The Nation", Donald Trump declares a national state of Emergency. The state of Emergency is the new 51st state of America and the state takes up the Gulf of Mexico.
- Finger in the Mail: In "A Stable Genius Explains The Saudi Arms Deal", Donald Trump discusses sending American arms to Saudi Arabia. He means "arms" as in "limbs". Saudi Arabia has other kinds of arms in their collection as well.
- Gratuitous Russian: In "A Stable Genius Explains Collusion", Donald Trump asks the viewer to remember some words from his advisors. The words are in Russian.
- Historical Domain Character: The videos use a fictionalized President Donald Trump.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Most videos follow the format "A Stable Genius Explains ___".
- In-Series Nickname: Donald Trump is nicknamed the "Stable Genius".
- Our Ghosts Are Different: In "A Stable Genius Explains Writing Books", Donald Trump explains that he hired an actual ghost to ghostwrite The Art Of The Deal. He says that ghosts are good workers who don't take breaks and don't need to pay taxes.
- Public Domain Soundtrack: The videos use the song "Splashing Around" by The Green Orbs. This song is free to use in YouTube videos.
- Pun: Many of these videos are revolved around these, mainly from his misunderstanding of what is really meant on the subject he's reviewing.
- In "A Stable Genius Addresses The Nation", Donald Trump declares a national state of Emergency. The state of Emergency is actually the new 51st state of America.
- In "A Stable Genius Explains Writing Books", Donald Trump explains the concept of a ghostwriter. The ghostwriter finished his book like an actual ghostwriter would, but the ghostwriter is also an actual ghost.
- In "A Stable Genius Explains The Saudi Arms Deal", Donald Trump discusses sending American arms to Saudi Arabia. He means "arms" as in "limbs". Saudi Arabia has other kinds of arms in their collection as well.
- He described impeachment as being put inside a literal peach, which he desperately tried to have happen to him.
- He described chain migration as actual chains migrating rather than chains of people.
- Riches to Rags: In "A Stable Genius Explains Writing Books", Donald Trump says that every time he tried to write chapter 11 of The Art Of The Deal, the bank took everything and left him bankrupt.
- Satire: The videos poke fun at Donald Trump and make fun of some of the stuff he's done in Real Life.
- Shout-Out: In "A Stable Genius Reads A Letter From Kim Jong-Un", Kim Jong-un's letter consists of the lyrics to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".
- Sore Loser: In "A Stable Genius Presents Hillary Clinton", Hillary Clinton says she feels upset about losing the election and she hasn't gotten better after two years of soul searching.
- Synthetic Voice Actor: An artificial intelligence model trained on Donald Trump's voice and speech patterns generates the voice of Donald Trump.
- Whole-Plot Reference: "Steamed Hams But It's Trump & Obama." is a re-enactment of the entire "Skinner & the Superintendent" segment of The Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield". The full segment is re-enacted with the fake voices of Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
