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Betsy DeVos Says Media Shouldnt Emphasize First Hundred Days Because Its So Hard to Count to a Hundred
By Andy Borowitz 11:20 A.M.
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticized the media on Friday for placing so much emphasis on Donald Trumps first hundred days, because its so darn hard to count to a hundred.
Im watching the news and theyre going on about a hundred days this and a hundred days that, and all I want to say is, Who the heck can count all the way to a hundred? she said. Theyre acting like were a bunch of math geniuses.
DeVos added that, if the media wanted to establish a benchmark for Trumps achievement, they should have picked a number of days that people can actually count to, like five or ten.
The Education Secretary then demonstrated how it was possible to count to ten using ones hands.
Despite the medias obsession with ridiculously big numbers, DeVos said she has no intention of trying to count to a hundred.
I have an important job and the last thing I need is to do something that makes my head hurt, she said.
Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of The 50 Funniest American Writers, and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news, for newyorker.com.
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,917 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I really did.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)difficult by the day to tell apart . What does this say about the state of affairs with this regime?
They_Live
(3,231 posts)but I really had to check, because it could happen.
malaise
(268,919 posts)He caught me last week
maveric
(16,445 posts)It gets more and more like a Mel Brooks movie every day.
They_Live
(3,231 posts)just because of the "opposite day" executive order marathon (all completely illogical), and the legislation being pushed. It all goes against common sense and reason.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)R&K
tavernier
(12,377 posts)She was going to name her daughter Bunnie, but that would have required a toe.
Yonnie3
(17,431 posts)Thanks for posting.
Mendocino
(7,486 posts)Except she can count just fine...if it's money.
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)so blindly advocates that will be responsible for the inability to count to one hundred. She represents something new - one of the Trump oligarchs.