Racist president-elect and steak salesman Donald Trump’s literary voice is a sort of strident, bludgeoning thing, re-creating in words and sentences the same petulant, antsy demeanor he evinced during all of his presidential debates. It is the exact tone that would form from an asshole whose first and only engagement with the written word is the medium and context of Twitter. Shout it into the abyss and see what nets the most outrage.
Because of this, and also because of his blackened, malevolent heart, Trump’s “Happy New Year’s” tweet makes a perfect fit for the vocal stylings of Mark Hamill, the long-time voice of the the animated Joker. Hamill was happy to oblige.
Hamill is a vocal chameleon—most of his career, post-Skywalker, has been in the recording booth, and his froglike impression of George Lucas remains the world’s greatest. And so he really gets into character here, particular in the nonverbal final half, during which he secretes the sort of long, barely conscious, hate-filled hiss that is implied after every one of Trump’s actual tweets.