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Zorro

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Thu Sep 17, 2020, 02:59 PM Sep 2020

Trump Claims Dog Ate His Health-Care Plan

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump’s promise to release a long-delayed health-care plan hit a snag when his dog ate the only existing copy of the plan, the President disclosed.

“I left the plan on my desk, and somehow the dog got up there and ate it,” he said. “It’s a bad dog, quite frankly.”

Trump’s explanation met with raised eyebrows from the White House press corps, none of whom had been previously aware that the President had a dog.

Asked to describe the dog, Trump said, “It has, you know, paws, and fur, and that head that dogs have. It’s a very basic dog that you would see.”

Pressed to reveal the dog’s name, Trump said, “I didn’t name it, because I don’t name dogs unless they do a good job. I’m not like Obama, who named every dog he got. I wish Obama’s dog had eaten Obamacare. We wouldn’t be in this mess.”

The White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, later announced that Trump’s dog would be taking an indefinite leave of absence.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-claims-dog-ate-his-health-care-plan

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Trump Claims Dog Ate His Health-Care Plan (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2020 OP
McEnany: "As God is my witness, ..." JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2020 #1
It's a lie because no self-respecting dog would go anywhere near Trump rurallib Sep 2020 #2
"Trump's dog would be taking an indefinite leave of absence" to spend NCjack Sep 2020 #3
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