Still, even without James Van Der Beek’s performance tied to Trump, our nation’s President still gets referenced quite a bit.
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk felt that tethering Donald Trump to the show’s background fabric touched on the important theme in Pose of being yourself, so they created two new characters to represent this idea and still naturally bring Trump without him actually being needed onscreen.
The end result perhaps isn’t as exciting as Van Der Beek joining the ranks of various Trump impersonators and portrayers, but it’s still appropriate, given how it may have distracted audiences from the main story.