Today in The New Yorker;
In response to:
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump Says He Deserves No Blame for State of America Because He Has Not Actually Worked for Past Four Years
By Andy Borowitz
September 1, 2020
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Pushing back against attempts to brand the United States of 2020 as “Trump’s America,” Donald Trump said that he deserves no blame for the state of the country, because he has not actually done any work for the past four years.
“I could understand people blaming me for things if I had actually been doing my job, but, quite frankly, I haven’t,” he said. “Anybody who claims otherwise is a terrible person.”
“CNN, which is a disgrace, says that it’s the White House’s fault for this and the White House’s fault for that,” he added. “Well, I’ve hardly been at the White House, so, once again, they’re wrong.”
Attempting to answer the question of whose America it is, if not his, Trump said, “The last President who actually worked at the White House was Barack Obama. So if this is anybody’s America it’s his and Sleepy Joe’s. People are saying that. They’re sick of living in Biden’s America, and we cannot give Joe Biden another four years.”
He rejected any suggestion that, as President, he must own the current conditions in America, asserting, “I know what I own and what I don’t own. I own Bill Barr. I own Mitch McConnell. I don’t own America.”
Andy Borowitz is a Times best-selling author and a comedian
who has written for The New Yorker since 1998.
He writes The Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news.
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Hot off the press, today from The New Yorker;
In response to:
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump Says He Could Beat LeBron James in a Dunk Contest If Not for Bone Spurs
By Andy Borowitz
August 29, 2020
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald Trump escalated his war of words with LeBron James on Saturday by saying that he could defeat the N.B.A. star in a dunk contest were it not for bone spurs.
“I’ve seen LeBron James on TV, and, quite frankly, I don’t think he’s very good at basketball,” Trump said. “The media is very unfairly biased in favor of him because he’s a Democrat, and I think it’s a disgrace.”
“You look at LeBron and sometimes when he shoots the ball, it doesn’t go into the basket,” he said. “If I try to drink a glass of water and miss my mouth, it’s all CNN talks about.”
Trump said that it was “very sad” that his bone spurs would keep him from showing off his slam-dunk form, which he called “poetry in motion.”
“A lot of people are saying that I’m better at dunking than that beauty LeBron,” he said. “A lot of very smart people.”
At the N.B.A. bubble, in Orlando, James, drafted out of high school, responded that he understood that the President’s foot woes would prevent him from participating in a dunk contest, but said that he would be happy to face Trump in a spelling contest.
Andy Borowitz is a Times best-selling author and a comedian
who has written for The New Yorker since 1998.
He writes The Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news.
Well, that's not a fair match-up. LeBron took his own tests and did his own school work.
Trump barely passed a cognitive test and paid other people to take his tests.
Not that we've actually seen those results of the cognitive test.
Maybe they're hidden with his tax returns and school grades.
Well, last night was weird, unless you want someone screaming at you.
But, tonight will feature a more soft spoken Melania.
And right here & now, courtesy of A Late Show, here's is a preview from (an imitation of) Melania.
Enjoy !
Though the blind lady touring the White House did not see Trump kick her seeing eye dog, she heard the thump and heard the loud yelp of her helper, followed by the retreating scurry of feet toward the Oval Office.
Since the blind lady saw nothing, nothing was said of the incident by White House staff.
So that is it. That is how easy it is to create a false story.
Keep that is mind next time you hear a story about democrats abusing an innocent Trump follower.
I'm voting for Biden too Melania.
*Beep beep* Human, take me to your leader
Which one? We have hundreds. All hostile to illegal aliens
We bring gifts - a cure for your virus AND a vaccine. An end to the panic!
oh right
they definitely won't talk to you. They're stoking the panic.
but your world is in turmoil! So many hysterical if someone exhales within 20 feet of them! So many refusing to admit there is a virus at all! We've come a long way to help you!
Listen, bud. You'd have to register your stuff for testing and then for registering and there's a queue. Lots of vaccines and cures in the pipeline. You want to waltz in here and jump the queue? Not going to happen.
But ours WORKS
Yeah? Every pharmaceutical company on earth will fight you every inch of the way. ESPECIALLY if it works.
Ignore them. Let the people rise up and demand their rights. We have enough vaccine for all!
Yeah, well - lots of people are, mmm, paranoid. They'd refuse a vaccine if it was developed right here on earth. So – um, sorry
You’re nuts, you know that?
yes we are. But thanks for trying.
online today!
It's the talk that president Trump wants his face on Mount Rushmore, or at least he's suggested it would be a good idea. I'm thinking it's a joke, but some fact checking say it's true.
Sure Donald, you can bring it up as much as you want, but there's one stipulation...
You have to have died many years ago!!
I suppose they can privatize it and call it Mount Trumpmore.