There is a precedent for PET. A character walks off a movie screen and into the life of a person whose life is dull/sad/pathetic. Is yours?

 A Woody Allen movie. The Purple Rose of Cairo. Didja see it?

So what's to stop a cartoon character like a Donald J. Trump from walking out of the cartoon environment and entering the reality of certain people whose lives are unexciting, unfulfilling, unhappy?