Is It Bad the Trump Administration’s Relationship With Russia is as Convoluted as the Plot of Love Actually?
DAN CAPRERA
April 11, 2017

The Trump administration sure has a lot of ties to Russia, doesn’t it? Every day, you can’t help but read some new story about hacked emails, or Paul Manafort, or clandestine secret meetings in the Seychelles — all of which suggest a potentially illegal partnership between Team Trump and Vladimir Putin. And, with this increasingly suspicious foreign relationship in mind, it very much begs the question: Is it bad that the Trump administration’s ties with Russia are as implausibly convoluted and interwoven as the plot of the 2003 Christmas rom-com Love Actually?

That’s bad, right?

Just consider how many inexplicably overwrought coincidences the two stories share. During the election, Sergey Kislyak (the Russian Ambassador to the United States) personally communicated with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, current Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Adviser to the President/White House Innovations Director/Middle East Peace Broker/Son-in-Law Jared Kushner over the span of a few short months. Similarly, in Love Actually, the romantic Christmastime wedding between Juliet (Keira Knightley) and Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) was attended by a plucky American graphic designer named Sarah (Laura Linney) who was deeply in love with her firm’s creative director Karl (Rodrigo Santoro) who was an employee of Harry (Alan Rickman) whose company was catered by Colin (Kris Marshall) who, incidentally, was ALSO the caterer for the aforementioned Christmastime wedding of Juliet and Peter.

The fact that both of those scenarios have so many overlapping characters in so many ostensibly unrelated events, that’s bad… right?
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/is-it-bad-the-trump-administrations-relationship-with-russia-is-as-convoluted-as-the-plot-of-love-actually