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Rhiannon12866

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Tue Nov 17, 2020, 12:42 AM Nov 2020

Obama Offers to Read His Book Aloud to Trump

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Saying, “It’s the least I can do,” former President Barack Obama has offered to read his new book aloud to Donald J. Trump.

“There’s a lot in there about democracy, governmental norms, and the rule of law,” Obama said of “A Promised Land,” which is being published this week. “I think he’d get a lot out of it being read to him.”

Obama said that he had thought about sending Trump the audiobook version, but then realized that “there would be no one to help him when he got to a word he didn’t understand.”

“I’m excited to do this,” Obama said. “There’s nothing more important than education.”

Acknowledging that it would take a lot of time for Trump to listen to the entire seven-hundred-and-sixty-eight-page book, Obama said, “He has a lot of time on his hands since he stopped going to meetings of the coronavirus task force.”


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obama-offers-to-read-his-book-aloud-to-trump



Photograph by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty

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Obama Offers to Read His Book Aloud to Trump (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Nov 2020 OP
BTW, the audio book IS read by the author nuxvomica Nov 2020 #1
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