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Amaryllis

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Tue May 2, 2017, 01:00 PM May 2017

Fourth-Grade Class Touring White House Answers Trumps Questions About the Civil War

Satire from the Borowitz Report
Fourth-Grade Class Touring White House Answers Trump’s Questions About the Civil War

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—A class of fourth-grade students touring the White House on Monday had a chance encounter with Donald Trump and were able to answer several of his questions about the Civil War.

The students, on a field trip organized by their Bethesda, Maryland, elementary school, happened upon Trump outside the Oval Office and “cleared a lot of things up for him,” their teacher said.

After Trump invited the children into his office, the ten-year-olds briefed him on the causes of the Civil War, including slavery, states’ rights, and regional economic differences.

“It was really cool,” Tracy Klugian, who had done a diorama about the Civil War while in third grade, said. “Someday I’ll be able to tell my kids that I met the President and taught him about history.”

But another student in the class, Zach Dorrinson, said that his attempt to explain the abolitionist movement to Trump was not successful.

“He needs to learn how to sit still for longer without fidgeting,” the fourth-grader said.



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Fourth-Grade Class Touring White House Answers Trumps Questions About the Civil War (Original Post) Amaryllis May 2017 OP
Smarter than a fourth grader,not. Wellstone ruled May 2017 #1
Who Knew the Civil War was so Complicated? Stallion May 2017 #2
Satire is so believable now. k8conant May 2017 #3
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