Why lip-sync impressions like Sarah Cooper’s turned out to be the best way to satirize this president?

“We hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light,” the president says, to the bafflement of nearby aides.

The actions belong to the comedian Sarah Cooper, whose homemade lip-syncs of the president’s rambling pandemic-related statements have become the most effective impression of Mr.

Cooper posted that first video, titled “How to Medical,” to TikTok and Twitter in April.

Cooper has been on a tear since, her karaoke Trump holding forth on the math of disease testing and wrestling with what it means to test “positively” for a virus.

Long before he was elected, Donald Trump posed the challenge of being easy to imitate, and thus nearly impossible to satirize.

Everyone has a Trump, and when everyone has a Trump, no one does.

Trump, which — like news reports that try to find a narrative in his ramblings — ends up polishing the reality, losing the chaos essential to the genuine article.

Which maybe destined Donald Trump to be the TikTok president.

Cooper’s “How to Medical,” other TikTok users riffed on a Trump ramble about the power of “germs.” Kylie Scott posted “Drunk in the Club After Covid,” lip-syncing Mr.

Trump, part an attempt to ask whether a woman could get away with what Mr.

Trump does and what that might look like.

Other Cooper videos are more minimal, like a 12-second clip of the president touting his economic record: “We are bringing our country back and a big focus is exactly that, with the, uh, minorities, specifically, if you look at, uh, the Asians.”.

Cooper’s Trump says something about what makes a good political impression.

Too often, people judge it by the Rich Little standard — how much you manage to look and sound like the subject