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Letter: Interview with the president

By Joel Littauer, VANCOUVER
Published: June 7, 2017, 6:00am

Right-wing journalist: Good morning, Mr. President. What do you plan to try to take away from the American people today?

President Trump: I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about it. I haven’t come up with anything yet.

Right-wing journalist: I could make few suggestions.

Trump: Go ahead.

Right-wing journalist: You could declare eminent domain on the whole country, take away people’s private property for your own use. Everywhere.

Trump: Go on.

Right-wing journalist: You could gather up every copy of the Constitution you can find in Washington D.C., including the original, and burn them all. If anyone wonders what happened to it, have Fox News say it never existed.

Trump: It was fake news.

Right-wing journalist: Right. Then you can fire Vice President Mike Pence.

Trump: But he was elected. I can’t fire an elected official.

Right-wing journalist: You don’t really care about a technicality like that, do you?

Trump: (Thoughtfully) Hmmm. No. I don’t.

Right-wing journalist: Time for your press conference.

Trump: Right. Thanks for the ideas. I’ll take them up with Ivanka, er … Melania, er … Jared … Which one am I married to?

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