Although Mr. Rainbow has been making comic videos for seven years, his YouTube channel took off with Mr. Trump’s presidential bid; his Facebook following went from 12,000 to half a million soon after. Are you guys dating and when did the relationship start?” Or this zinger in a recent video in response to Mr. Trump calling James Comey a showboat: “Those are pretty harsh words coming from the Titanic.”Now Mr. Rainbow is in high demand. “But it was really my grandmother who was the biggest influence because she’d talk back to the celebrities and politicians on TV,” Mr. Rainbow said. As the dance captain of a Boy Scout troop, Mr. Rainbow rings the doorbell of the former Texas governor to sell cookies and makeup and show off his merit badge for not eating carbs. Mr. Rainbow walked in the door and was accosted.

Source: New York Times June 23, 2017 19:30 UTC