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Stonepounder

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Thu Jul 11, 2019, 02:27 AM Jul 2019

British Ambassador Concealed Insults from Trump by Writing Messages in English (Borowitz)

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-ambassador-concealed-insults-from-trump-by-writing-messages-in-english

LONDON (The Borowitz Report)—The British Ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, explained on Monday that he had tried to conceal insulting remarks from Donald Trump by writing his cables in English.

“I believed that, by writing these messages in English, that would serve the same purpose as encryption,” Darroch said. “The fact that Trump was somehow able to decode them remains deeply mysterious to me.”

Darroch said that, “out of an abundance of caution,” he took further steps to make the cables indecipherable to Trump, deploying multisyllabic words such as “dysfunctional.” “Clearly, I did not take into account the possibility that one of his aides might read these cables aloud to him and explain what all of the long words meant,” he said. “I was not aware that there was anyone at the White House capable of performing such duties.”

In Washington, Trump appeared not to be taking the insulting cables personally. “The British are just mad at us for taking over their airports in the eighteenth century,” he said.
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British Ambassador Concealed Insults from Trump by Writing Messages in English (Borowitz) (Original Post) Stonepounder Jul 2019 OP
Oh that is rich!! Thekaspervote Jul 2019 #1
That got a chuckle... Wounded Bear Jul 2019 #2
The best satire... always contains more than a kernel of truth Soph0571 Jul 2019 #3
I love good satire Gothmog Jul 2019 #4
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