--- title: Dutch Parody of Donald Trump's Inaugural Speech Goes Viral description: A Dutch comedy show mocks Donald Trump in a welcome video that suggests Trump put America first, the Netherlands second. canonical: https://time.com/4645127/dutch-tv-donald-trump-video/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-24T16:31:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:24.634Z og:title: This Dutch Parody of Trump's Inaugural Speech Is Going Viral og:description: "America first, the Netherlands second" og:url: https://time.com/4645127/dutch-tv-donald-trump-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Dutch Parody of Trump's Inaugural Speech Is Going Viral twitter:description: "America first, the Netherlands second" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Dutch TV Show's Parody of Donald Trump's Inaugural Speech Is Going Viral by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 24, 2017 4:31 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 24, 2017 4:31 PM UTC As President Donald Trump has mentioned, [people are talking about America all over the world](http://time.com/4598647/most-popular-google-search-2016/) — and that includes satirical comedy shows in the Netherlands. In response to Trump’s [first speech](http://time.com/4641547/inauguration-2017-donald-trump-america-first/) about putting “America first,” the comedy show _Zondag met Lubach_ is asking him to put the Netherlands second. So in their video pitch filled with happy tourism images, a Trump impersonator officially hypes up all the superior things about the Western European destination. As you might have been able to guess, the video quickly went viral. “We speak Dutch,” the video pitch mentions. “It’s the best language in Europe. We’ve got all the best words. All the other languages failed. Danish…total disaster. German is not even a real language. It’s fake.” The video then brags about its many assets like a pony park, a miniature town, and a wall of their very own. “It’s a great wall that we built us to protect us from all the water from Mexico. Nobody builds oceans better than we do.” But the most comical attraction might be economic: “the best tax evasion system God ever created.” Watch the video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4645127/dutch-tv-donald-trump-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4645127/dutch-tv-donald-trump-video/"},"headline":"This Dutch TV Show's Parody of Donald Trump's Inaugural Speech Is Going Viral","datePublished":"2017-01-24T16:31:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:24.634Z","description":"\"America first, the Netherlands second\"","url":"https://time.com/4645127/dutch-tv-donald-trump-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4645127/dutch-tv-donald-trump-video/","name":"This Dutch TV Show's Parody of Donald Trump's Inaugural Speech Is Going Viral"}}]}] ```