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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBritish 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-englishLONDON (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
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Thekaspervote
(35,816 posts)1. Oh that is rich!!
Wounded Bear
(63,970 posts)2. That got a chuckle...
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)3. The best satire... always contains more than a kernel of truth
Gothmog
(176,683 posts)4. I love good satire
