DeVos Defends Trump: Would a Moron Hire Me?

[MrScorpio]

By Andy Borowitz
October 6, 2017

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos offered a spirited defense of her boss’s intelligence on Friday, bluntly asking reporters, “Would a moron hire me?”
“My intelligence can be very intimidating,” DeVos said. “And if Donald Trump was a moron, he would not want to be around people who are intelligent than him.”

As evidence that Trump does not feel inferior around highly intelligent people, DeVos singled out other members of Trump’s Cabinet. "Leave me out of it for a second,” she said. “If Donald Trump was such a blithering idiot, why would he have hired Rick Perry?”

“Jared Kushner is also super smart,” she added. “He doesn’t even work on Saturdays because he’s a Jewish person and whatnot, but he doesn’t have to because of his huge brain and all. He’s so smart I have a nickname for him. I call him Smart Jared.”

Arguing that only a “very smart person would hire such very smart persons,” DeVos said, “Think about it. Rick Perry, Jared Kushner, and me. Wouldn’t Donald Trump have to be pretty smart to hire four people like that?”

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[dewsgirl]

1. LOL

[CentralMass]

2. Only a moron would hire her.

[GreenEyedLefty]

14. This was my first thought!

[Pachamama]

3. Yes

A fucking Moron definitely

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. Pots and Kettles.

Redefining hubris every day.

[Kablooie]

5. From the mouth of a moron.

How many times does Elon Musk brag about his intimidating intelligence?
Intelligent people don't need to talk about their intelligence.

[Straw Man]

6. You are aware, of course, ...

... that Borowitz is a humorist, and that this didn't really happen.

Still, it's pretty funny.

[sharedvalues]

7. Ha ha ha ha - thought this was a real headline at first

When parody becomes reality...

[NastyRiffraff]

11. Hard to tell the difference lately

We're living in the Twilight Zone.

[bullwinkle428]

16. DAMN!! Borowitz got me again, too!

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. Of course not, Betsy. Morons are smarter than that.

Therefore, we must conclude that Rump isn't even as smart as the average moron. QED.

[mfcorey1]

9. Unreal that a hired moron would ask that question!

[Paladin]

10. Go Borowitz! Love it. (nt)

[louis c]

12. Borowitz story, as fake as it is...

...is very, very plausible.

I can see a Trump cabinet member saying this.

[malaise]

13. Choking with laughter

[Wounded Bear]

15. I think it is a Repub plan to destroy satire and parody...

by making it indistinguishable from real life.

[Dem_4_Life]

17. LOL!!!!!

I'm dying of laughter.