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Trump blocked comedian Sarah Cooper on Twitter. Now she calls him her 'head writer'

President Donald Trump and comedian Sarah Cooper really don't care for each other. But these days, they are in perfect sync.

Cooper has become one of the hottest comics of the coronavirus era with her social media videos, in which she lip-syncs some of Trump's most controversial pandemic-related pronouncements. With a mix of deadpan flair and exaggerated facial expressions, she has spun his headline-grabbing statements into comedy gold.

In "How to Medical," she lampooned Trump's comments at a press briefing at which he suggested to Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, that the virus could be attacked by hitting the body with a "tremendous" or ultraviolet light. He also suggested that "injecting" disinfectant into the body or lungs could "knock it out in a minute."

Attired in a blue jacket and black blouse, Cooper illustrated his comments with a lamp in her

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