The presidential candidacy of Hollis Doyle seems to be based on that of Donald Trump, who ran for the Republican nomination in 2015 and 2016 when this season aired. Trump is a billionaire businessman like Doyle, has similar clothing and hair styling, and ran on a similar anti-immigration platform. At his campaign launch event in I See You (2016) Hollis made crude remarks about immigrants, and stated during the first debate that "what we don't need are the murderers and thugs" immigrating from Mexico so as president he would build an "electric cyber wall" along the border.
These comments bear a striking resemblance to ones Trump made at his campaign launch in June 2015 calling for a wall because "when Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best....They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists." Mellie Grant also attacks Hollis for hypocrisy since his great-grandfather was an immigrant, while Trump has often faced the same line of attack because his mother and paternal grandparents were immigrants to the United States. This episode aired in March 2016, when Trump was himself participating in the Republican primary debates.
Further, while the presumptive nominee for the Democratic party in 2016 was Hillary Clinton, the wife of a former president, Hollis was running against Mellie Grant, ex-wife of President Grant.
These comments bear a striking resemblance to ones Trump made at his campaign launch in June 2015 calling for a wall because "when Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best....They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists." Mellie Grant also attacks Hollis for hypocrisy since his great-grandfather was an immigrant, while Trump has often faced the same line of attack because his mother and paternal grandparents were immigrants to the United States. This episode aired in March 2016, when Trump was himself participating in the Republican primary debates.
Further, while the presumptive nominee for the Democratic party in 2016 was Hillary Clinton, the wife of a former president, Hollis was running against Mellie Grant, ex-wife of President Grant.