DeVos Says Trumps Forty-Per-Cent Approval Rating Means More Than Half of Country Supports Him

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—An exuberant Betsy DeVos said on Monday that Donald J. Trump’s forty-per-cent approval rating is a “clear indication” that more than half the country agrees with the job he is doing.

“I was so excited to see the President’s approval rating hit forty,” DeVos, the Secretary of Education, told reporters. “Just knowing that well more than half the country is with him gives us a great sense of confidence moving forward.”

She also criticized the media for failing to report “our powerful forty-per-cent mandate.
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“If you believed news reports, you would think that the people supporting the President are in the minority, when in fact they’re forty per cent,” she said.

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[radical noodle]

1. I love Borowitz!

He always does satire in a way that makes it believable.

[Warpy]

5. Borowitz is one of the few who can actually manage satire

in these days of Republicans trying to self satirize. Of course, she'll probably make a harebrained announcement soon in an attempt to top this, they always do.

[yeoman6987]

19. Honestly thank god this was satire. With her I was not sure.

[gademocrat7]

2. She is an incompetent nutter.

[Opbrg]

3. Since when does 40% equate to more than half the country?

And she is in charge of our children's education....woe is us

[Dorian Gray]

6. It was satire

I mean, woe is us, yes. But not bc of this article.

[elehhhhna]

8. His satire is not funny enough and thus co tributes to the fake news meme.

My two cents

[Dorian Gray]

10. Borowitz?

He's a well known satirist in NYC. Sometimes funny. Sometimes not. But when it comes from the NYer and it seems too OTT, then look for his name. It's probably satire. (I don't think satire needs to be particularly funny. It just needs to satirize.)

[Freddie]

12. The finest satire

Is when you really have to wonder if it's satire.
But this can't be her - no misspellings or grammar errors!

[uppityperson]

15. It's difficult to do satire when reality is so bizarre

[elehhhhna]

18. Can't satiriZe the ridiculous

[Opbrg]

11. Didn't even notice it was Borowitz.

But it is believable that she would say something this stupid.

[Dorian Gray]

13. Totally!

The headline I totally bought. Read the whole thing, and it was only toward the end I thought: This can't be...... then i noticed.

[msanthrope]

23. Whoosh!## nt

[boston bean]

4. I actually believed for a second, until I read the body of the post, that this was real.

Had no problem believing it.

[dewsgirl]

9. This keeps happening to me, things are so crazy right now. It's hard to separate fiction and reality

[sarah FAILIN]

16. I feel the same

So much insanity and you don't know what is real.

[democratisphere]

7. Love the alternative facts math.

[Demonaut]

14. please list this as satire

[Demit]

20. Hopefully you'll note from here on out when it's Andy Borowitz,,,

if you didn't find the satire obvious on its own. Or click thru to see that the New Yorker labels it at the top, "Satire."

[Demonaut]

21. hopefully posters will do the "right thing" and list the post as satire when it's satire

otherwise it's unnecessarily misleading and I think a violation of TOS

[tblue37]

17. That is what her expensive private religious education taught her, I guess. Or she is just

stupid.

[burrowowl]

22. I guess her private schools

didn't teach basic arithmetic, good one Borowitz!