Nation Cruelly Reminded That It Once Had a President

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https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/nation-cruelly-reminded-that-it-once-had-a-president

Nation Cruelly Reminded That It Once Had a President

By Andy Borowitz
6:51 P.M.

Photograph by Mark Wilson / Getty


WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a televised event that many deemed unnecessarily cruel, millions of Americans were briefly reminded on Monday that they once had a President.

Unsuspecting Americans who turned on cable news Monday morning were suddenly assaulted with the memory of a time when the country’s domestic affairs, international diplomacy, and nuclear codes were entrusted to an adult.

CNN, one of the networks that televised the event, immediately said that it regretted doing so, and acknowledged that reminding Americans that they recently had a President had caused widespread bereavement and distress. “CNN deeply apologizes for the error,” a network statement read. “It will never happen again.”

Compounding the cruelty of the televised event, the networks lingered unnecessarily on a speech that only served to remind viewers that the nation once had a President who rigorously obeyed rules of grammar and diction.

Finally, the reminder that the country recently had a chief executive who loved and respected his wife was deemed “too much” by many viewers, who felt compelled to change the channel.

“It was horrible,” Carol Foyler, a viewer who was traumatized by the broadcast, said. “It’s like when you stumble on a photo of an ex on Facebook and they unfortunately look amazing.”

[Wounded Bear]

1. It was the best of times, it is now the worst of times...

[tanyev]

2. Intellectually, I get that this is funny.

Emotionally, it is just too, too true.

[Pachamama]

5. +1000

[GoCubsGo]

3. It's at the point where that should no longer be considered satire.

[Luciferous]

4. His left foot looks weird in that picture, like it's in the wrong place

[RKP5637]

29. Yep, the leaf against it gives an optical illusion of sorts, like the shoe is in the wrong place.

[lpbk2713]

6. Pete Souza should have taken that photo.

...

[democratisphere]

7. What a President he was! Damn, he was so good!

[jalan48]

8. Watching the unveiling today I realized how much I missed Obama's sense of humor.

He made me laugh at times when i needed it.

[brush]

10. Yeah, Chris Mathews just aired his jokes about negotiating for less grey hair and smaller ears...

with the artist and how he struck out on both counts.

It was so sly and witty and funny and just made you like him even more.

[jalan48]

11. I saw that today. He also made some funny remarks about not liking to sit still for the portrait

whereas Michelle and her artist seemed to be having a great time. I've read wit is a sign of intelligence and Obama has a lot of wit.

[George II]

17. It was his typical self-deprecating humor. And I'm sure the crowd at Fox News cringed.....

....when he said Michelle was "hot", and followed it up with "the love of my life".

[malaise]

9. This is the absolute truth

Rec

[Gothmog]

12. I miss having a real POTUS

[George II]

18. At this point I'd take four more years of baby bush!!!!!

[FakeNoose]

13. Does it seem like the hands are too large?

Or maybe I'm unfairly comparing them against Cheeto's "too small" hands.

[onecent]

14. They were wonderful!!!!!

[AnnieBW]

15. I Really Miss The Obamas

Every. Single. Fucking. Day. I'm a Federal employee. I have to work for the Cheeto. I'm sick of having my job be a political football.

[montanacowboy]

19. I feel your pain

when I worked in DC under the George Bush admin I felt like that every single day
Boy if I only knew what was coming

Hang in there

[George II]

20. I live not far from the Submarine Museum in Groton, CT. Back in the fall we went to visit.........

......and was greeted with this inside the front entrance:



I'd forgotten that every Federal facility has a photograph of the president. So, when I got home I looked up Obama's photograph, what a contrast!!!

[brush]

22. Looks like trump even dyes his eyebrows.

There are photos all over the internet when his hair and eyebrows were brown, not blond.

Talk about fake news, everything about this guy is fake.

https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=1990+photos+of+trump&fr=yhs-pty-pty_converter&hspart=pty&hsimp=yhs-pty_converter&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2F&action=click

[George II]

23. Note that his teeth are different, too.

[brush]

25. Heehee. They were ahead of their time.

[bdamomma]

26. That's his

dictator pose.

[George II]

27. Looks more like his constipated pose as he's planted on his 24 carat gold throne.

[MustLoveBeagles]

31. Scary

Give him a dark cloak and he could be the Emperor from Star Wars.

[Cha]

34. Good god.. that's scary

as shite.

Wonder what the penalty is for throwing rotten eggs at a trumpic?

[Lifelong Protester]

16. I really miss him!

[not fooled]

21. Federal agencies

should post those photos of dump in the broom closet.

[bdamomma]

24. If only............

we were sane again.

[onlyadream]

28. The portrait reminds me of when

Obama was on Between then Ferns.

And now I will pretend that he’s still POTUS (how I keep sane).

[RKP5637]

30. I just can't believe we have this ass in the WH as president of the US. Each day is a non-ending

nightmare!

[MustLoveBeagles]

32. Dang it, why does he have to look so handsome?

[bdamomma]

35. and so fit

too!! come back.....sigh

[MustLoveBeagles]

36. I love how he's pointing at his hand

[Cha]

33. Good one, Borowitz!

ROFL