Watch now: Trump blocked Sarah Cooper on Twitter. Now the comedian calls him his "main writer"

President Donald Trump and comedian Sarah Cooper really don't love each other. But these days, they are in perfect sync.

Cooper has become one of the most popular comics of the coronavirus era with her social media videos, syncing some of the most controversial pronouncements related to the Trump pandemic. With a mix of expressionless style and exaggerated facial expressions, she has turned her statements into comedy gold headlines.

In "How to Medical," she criticized Trump's comments at a press conference in which she suggested to Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, that the virus could be attacked by hitting the body with a "tremendous" or ultraviolet light. She also suggested that "injecting" disinfectant into the body or lungs could "get rid of it in a minute."

Dressed in a blue jacket and black blouse, Cooper illustrated her comments with a lamp in her home and pointing to her face and back to show how light could enter the body. She held up a bottle of cleaner when she showed how the disinfectant could fight the virus. Wearing the same outfit minus the jacket and slightly changing her appearance, she also portrayed the incredulous Birx.

The video caught fire and has attracted more than 18 million views on Twitter.

"It is not something that people have seen before: a black woman who synchronizes the lips of Trump's words in a very realistic documentary way," Cooper said.

In a video released May 30, Cooper, with a fan blowing her hair to imitate Trump's whisper of the wind, channeled the president's statement that "MAGA loves blacks."

He previously showed how Trump conjured the name of his conspiracy theory about former President Barack Obama with his eyes thrown from a copy of former White House photographer Pete Souza's book "Obama: An Intimate Portrait" at a small nearby door. .

"Obamagate," he declared, his eyes bright.

Trump's vicious roast against Trump has sparked thanks from leading artists, including Ben Stiller, Jerry Seinfeld, and Bette Midler. She appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres talk show and on MSNBC's "The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell". She has met with several production companies about possible projects.

"I'm having a moment, but it's definitely been surreal," Cooper said in an interview from his home in New York. "The agents who wouldn't call me back three years ago now want to talk to me. Things are going really well as the world falls apart. It's been quite a roller coaster ride. At one point it's" Oh my gosh what's going on with pandemic, lockdown, and quarantine? "And the next moment is," Oh my gosh, Ben Stiller retweeted my tweet. "

She added: "I feel so many emotions at once. People are laughing when it is very difficult to laugh. As a comedian and artist, you always ask yourself: Am I making a difference? Am I doing something worthwhile?"

Cooper gives much of the credit for her new success to "writing, which is so good." She explained: “Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it. There were so many moments that I could use. I put the video on within a few hours of him saying those words. Many people said they saw the parody before seeing reality, which made it not only good content, but newsworthy.

Trump's stumbles remind her of her previous career as a designer for Google, where she was required to attend a series of monotonous meetings where much was said but little was accomplished.

"When Trump started doing those daily briefings and was faced with how incompetent he is and how out of his element he is, I just remembered being in the corporate world and seeing BS-ing people through a meeting, making their coworkers think they know things when they really have no idea what they are talking about, "Cooper said.

Her dislike for Trump has fueled her comic sensibility: "It looks like we've been under gas for 3 1/2 years." Now she's saying ridiculous things that don't make sense, but people nod and nobody calls her. That frustration is part of the reason I wanted to do something like this. "

The feeling is mutual. When it comes to Cooper, Trump is not a fan.

When Trump launched one of his countless Twitter attacks against the mainstream media in October 2017, he said: “Fake news is spreading to degrade and denigrate! What hate Cooper tweeted: "Fake news: Donald Trump has become unfit for office. Real news: Donald Trump was ALWAYS unfit for the job. "

That response resulted in Trump blocking him from his millions of followers. One of the descriptors in her  Twitter bio is “#blockedbytrump.”

"Sarah has always been super political," said Katie Morrissey, a friend of Cooper who is also a comedian. The two had been performing in standing venues prior to the closing in New York.

"Seeing what's going on with her is crazy," Morrissey said. “Getting Trump's words out of a woman of color shows how ridiculous he is and how old whites get away with saying things. The American people have been numb for so long at what it says that something like this wakes you up a bit to the absurdity of it all. "

Cooper began dabbling in comedy about 11 years ago. “I wanted to be an actress when I was little, but I wasn't very good at it, so I tried many different things. One night I went to an open microphone and told a story. I found that I liked it much more than playing a character. "

She developed routines about life as a single woman (she is now married) and her Jamaican immigrant parents. "When you are Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that way," he said. In a joke, she and her father were walking through a mall. Her father pointed out, "Sarah, look at the blacks over there," to which she replied, "Dad, that's a mirror."

While on Google, she started writing blog posts about how to look smart in meetings. When those posts started to get attention, she got a deal to write a book titled "100 Tricks to Look Smart in Meetings: How to Survive Without Even Trying."

The success of that book convinced her to devote more of her energy to comedy: “She had a platform. There was a period when I was teaching the business world about humor and bringing the two worlds together. "

Her foot race was beginning to gain momentum when the pandemic struck. But breaking through during a quarantine when comedy venues close has been strange.

"I had just done my first Montreal audition" Just for laughs, "" she said. “It was starting to get noticed, housing open microphones. Now I can't go out and play at night. It was a small blessing because I can focus on my comedy now working at home. "

Because Cooper is still getting used to being comfortable in front of the public, he has been able to better process his sudden success.

"I feel like things happen the way they're supposed to happen," he said. "This could be a little better for me. I have anxiety, so maybe this was a better way to expose myself [more] slowly than if I had been bombed and taken on stage in front of 5,000 people where I could have been completely overwhelmed. I see this as a kind of blessing. "

And not everything has been about looking for laughter. The "How to Medical" video was developed over an emotional week.

"I had started the week crying for this 5-year-old girl, Skylar Herbert, who had died of COVID-19," he said. "Her parents were the first to respond. He was very depressed, very sad. On Thursday I made that video. By Friday, it was exploding. I posted comments for people to donate to the Skylar Memorial Fund. I was able to take an opportunity to help. I was proud of that. "

So far Cooper says he has received little reaction to his attacks from Trump. You've even heard of Trump supporters having fun with the videos.

When asked how he thinks Trump would respond to his "Trump mode," he paused.

"That's a very good question," said Cooper. "I have two opinions on this. One, you wouldn't realize that I was making fun of him. You would probably think, 'There is a black woman who supports me. Take him to the White House. "Or he gets very angry because his voice comes out of my mouth and demands me."

Meanwhile, he's working on a new book, an audible original that will be "my take" on Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People," he says. He's also working on developing a stand-up set. night.

And, of course, there will be more videos: "I'll keep doing them as long as my lead writer gives me material."