Satirical Trump News Fools Chinese Website

No tin foil at the White House

It was one of Andy Borowitz’s funnier recent items.

Screen grab via: newyorker.com

In case you missed it, here is the gist of The New Yorker satirist’s March 4 goof, riffing off suggestions from the current Commander-in-Chief that some wiretapping has been going on:

According to the sources, President Trump contacted staffers Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer at approximately 6 a.m. Saturday and instructed them to purchase enough tin foil to cover every phone in the building.

The President, still wearing his bathrobe after what was reportedly a sleepless night, personally supervised the tin-foil installation, sources said.

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