California Governor Gavin Newsom has spearheaded a wave of online mockery against Donald Trump after the president unveiled the 'Patriot Games', a four-day athletic competition that critics have immediately likened to the dystopian world of The Hunger Games.
The announcement, made on Thursday, was pitched as a cornerstone of what Trump describes as the 'most spectacular birthday party the world has ever seen' to celebrate America's 250th anniversary. However, the proposal for a high-stakes youth tournament has instead triggered a flurry of comparisons to Suzanne Collins' 2008 novel, in which children are forced to compete in a deadly televised spectacle.
