'Bad Lip Reading' Hilariously Turns Second Presidential Debate Into Epic Poetry Slam

'Bad Lip Reading' turned the second presidential debate into an epic poetry slam, featuring a mellow Trump who waxes poetic about birds.

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The second presidential debate—what will likely go down as the nastiest presidential debate in modern American history—just got a little nicer, thanks to the folks over at Bad Lip Reading. 

The team published an overdubbed version of the town hall Friday. Instead of hearing Trump call for Clinton's imprisonment and justify his comments that he can "do anything" to women because he's famous, we hear him wax poetic about a small bird. It's truly a win for everyone.

He talks about eating a bird's eye. "Stephanie, where's the bird's eye? Wait, here's a little wing. Help me," the voiceover says. 

"We lived our white lie in a red cage that's now gone. Anger, rust, and the summer ice. I couldn't melt in a brown bikini," Clinton responds. The camera pans to a shot of Trump looking disturbed and confused.

"Trump" fires back with a poem about Mike the Merry Cricket: "Mike just loved to sing. And when he was little, the bees and the toucan would always stop by." They include the original audio of Trump's sniffles. "Until one horrible day, there was cricket meat in the gravy. Yes there was. And what it was... was Mike the merry cricket."

Clinton's next poem is a reflection on cadavers and death. Under those circumstances, you can't really blame her.

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