I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it.
I’m on the White House’s “1600 Daily” email list, a masochistic maneuver on my part which I undertook after sending the Current Resident a message on the White House contact form.
These daily updates consist of various features, video clips, the Current Resident’s daily schedule, and then a couple of links to news reports.
The first “News Report” link in today’s message was the following:
The Washington Post: "Trump’s budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why"
Whoever added that link to the message is not long for a White House job, and I will tell you why.
It’s satire. Biting, over-the-top satire.
Here are the first two paragraphs:
Some people are complaining that the budget proffered by the Trump administration, despite its wonderful macho-sounding name, is too vague and makes all sorts of cuts to needed programs in favor of increasing military spending by leaps and bounds. These people are wimps. Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has called it a “hard power budget” which is, I think, the name of an exercise program where you eat only what you can catch, pump up your guns and then punch the impoverished in the face. This, conveniently, is also what the budget does.
This budget will make America a lean, mean fighting machine with bulging, rippling muscles and not an ounce of fat. America has been weak and soft for too long. BUT HOW WILL I SURVIVE ON THIS BUDGET? you may be wondering. I AM A HUMAN CHILD, NOT A COSTLY FIGHTER JET. You may not survive, but that is because you are SOFT and WEAK, something this budget is designed to eliminate.
Read the rest. It is simply TOO delicious.