As everyone knows, Donald Trump has been in a binge-firing mode— anyone and everyone whose job it is to watchdog him has received their notices. In his fury to fire as many Inspectors General and over-seers as possible, Trump failed to read all the letters. As he stormed through the pile, affixing his barbed-wire signatures to whatever documents were placed before him, he missed the one that a young deep-stater had slipped unnoticed into the pile, the one with the name of “Donald J. Trump,” on it.
The batch ended up on the desk of Mark Meadows, Trump’s Chief of Staff, who handed them over to his secretary and said, “Take one copy of these over to the House and another to the Senate, would you please? That will set their hair on fire!”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi opened her batch right away. When she came upon the letter stating that Donald J. Trump was to be dismissed because “the President no longer has confidence in you,” she whooped and called Chuck Schumer to her office right away.
“Could this be a joke?” he asked.
“Doesn’t matter. He signed it. He has just fired himself. He hasn’t been well lately. This might have been a sneaky way to get out of serving without resigning. Now he can blame the Democrats for a conspiracy. But according to The 1978 Inspector General Act: P.L 95-452, this can’t be walked back. It says so in black and white: “As soon as the firing document is received by the House and Senate, it cannot be rescinded.”
“Oh no. Pence is now President?!! Right this minute??
“That’s right. Trump would have to run against Pence and Biden and Kanye in November, and we know how that will turn out.”
“President Kanye.”
Rosie Sorenson is a humor writer in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can contact her at: RosieSorenson29@yahoo.com.
From The Progressive Populist, September 1, 2020
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