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struggle4progress

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Sat May 14, 2016, 04:20 PM May 2016

Trump Promises Paul Ryan That He’ll Sound Slightly Less Like Hitler

BY ANDY BOROWITZ
MAY 12, 2016

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In what is being hailed as a productive closed-door meeting between two leaders of the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump promised House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday that he would try to sound slightly less like the former German Chancellor Adolf Hitler ...

“Paul basically said, ‘Can you help me out here? Can you not sound like Hitler all the time?’” Trump said. “And I was like, ‘Paul, I can absolutely do that for you.’”

As an example, Trump said, “Instead of saying I am going to round up people based on their religion, I’ll say that’s just a suggestion. Just like that, I’m fifty per cent less Hitlerish” ...

Trump acknowledged that the challenge for him will be to sound somewhat less like Hitler to please congressional Republicans while still sounding enough like Hitler to avoid alienating his key constituencies of Nazis and white supremacists ...


http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-promises-paul-ryan-that-hell-sound-slightly-less-like-hitler

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