Review by Gabe Kaminsky

Directed by Jason Woliner and starring Sacha Baron Cohen, the “Borat” mockumentary-style sequel shows all the signs of Trump Derangement Syndrome. The 2006 film was funny and nuanced, but the sequel entirely fails because of its preoccupation with former President Donald Trump and his vice president Mike Pence, as well as ridiculing ordinary Americans.

The plot is about Borat (played by Cohen), who travels to the United States because he is promised freedom from Kazakhstan if he gets a gift for Pence, a “lady killer.” This is to satirize Pence’s religious faith because he will not stay alone with a woman who is not his wife. Borat goes to America with his daughter in a cage, to harp on the left’s (misguided) notion that President Trump built the cages that the Obama administration actually did.

From here, the film divides into various sketches aimed at communicating the stupidity of normal Americans. Borat meets with Republicans who shout conspiracy theories about prominent Democrats like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, and presses the men on COVID. Rudy Giuliani is shown in the film, in a video leaked by actress Maria Bakalova (Borat’s daughter) pretending to be a reporter. Giuliani is seen putting his hands down his pants.

In its endlessly woke nature and goal of vilifying 50 percent of the country, “Borat II” fails miserably and is a joke of a film. As Federalist Culture editor Emily Jashinsky reported on Tuesday, Cohen admitted that the film functioned in order “to inspire people to vote and remind people of the immorality of the government prior to the election.”

Thus, the new Borat film is an open propaganda piece. But consumers crave stories.

Sacha Baron Cohen goes a step further making a pro-Biden propaganda film. He tries to blame COVID-19 on Donald Trump, and falsely accuses him of being a fascist. He makes matters worse when he harasses Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani, and falsely portrays them as pedophiles.