Earlier this summer, we reported that Idiocracy collaborators Etan Cohen and Mike Judge were teaming up to make a series of apt “President Camacho”-themed anti-Trump ads. All they needed was the go ahead from 20th Century Fox, which owns the rights to the disturbingly prescient comedy from 2006. As it turns out, they didn’t get it—Fox declined, and the ads are effectively dead, but that shouldn’t really surprise anyone given that Fox boss Rupert Murdoch is pretty open about his support of Donald Trump. According to The Daily Beast, Terry Crews was on board for the ads, but even Terry Crews is no match for Murdoch’s absolute power.
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