The acronym for laugh(ing) out loud — LOL — has become hackneyed by now, but there is no other means of describing Andy Borowitz's imagination in transforming the latest political pot-boiler into a form of remediation for the reading-averse Moron-in-Chief. The description of the impromptu "White House Players" impersonating themselves or key Oval Office figures is a joke that is LOL-funny with every reading. If this is a (fair & balanced) challenge to non-Trumpist readers, so be it.
[x New Yorker]
White House Staff Forced To Act Out Michael Wolff Book For Non-Reading President
By Andy Borowitz
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Donald J. Trump, legendary among US Presidents for his aversion to reading, demanded on Thursday that members of his White House circle act out Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire and Fury (2018), in a command performance in the Oval Office.
According to those who witnessed the dramatic presentation, Jared Kushner played the role of Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump played the role of Ivanka Trump, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders played Steve Bannon.
Sources who sat through the private performance of Fire and Fury said that Sanders’s portrayal of Bannon was particularly impressive.
“Sarah’s a natural,” one source said. “At the end of the day, acting is just lying.”
But the performer who “stole the show,” according to one source, was Eric Trump, who was cast in the role of his father.
“Eric played his dad like a bumbling, spoiled idiot who couldn’t do anything right,” the source said. “It was the role of a lifetime for him.”
The President, who sat stone-faced as the spectacle unfolded, became increasingly angry and agitated, especially as he witnessed Kellyanne Conway’s scathingly sarcastic portrayal of herself.
Reportedly, after Conway mimed putting a finger gun to her head for the fifth time, Trump grabbed his remote and tried to turn her off. # # #
[Andy Borowitz is the creator the Borowitz Report, a Web site that is a lot funnier than the stuff posted by Matt Drudge and his ilk. Borowitz is a comedian and writer whose work appears regularly in The New Yorker. He is the first winner of the National Press Club's humor award and has won seven Dot-Comedy Awards for his web site. His most recent book (and Amazon's Best Kindle Single of the Year) is An Unexpected Twist (2012). Borowitz received a BA, magna cum laude (English) from Harvard University.]
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