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I Forgot the President’s Name
“Sorry I’m late. I had to get some coffee.”
“Don’t you mean covfefe?”
“Huh?”
“Remember, that tweet?”
“Oh right. From that guy. Not Bush. The other dumb president — ”
“Trump?”
“Yeah. Ha! I forgot the president’s name.”
“How?!”
“Well, to be honest, I have been limiting my use of social media. Like, by a lot. If it’s not to check my bank account and if I’m not getting paid to do it, I don’t go online.”
“At all?”
“Nope. I deleted most of my apps, too. And I find I’m not missing out much. Everyone is just so angry all the time. News comes out, and a week later, the story is completely different. Everyone is so eager to be the first person to break a story, and nobody cares about what happened. And then everyone is enraged. And the cycle keeps going.”
“What about people who talk about the news? Aren’t you missing out?”
“I have a few relatives who are Trump supporters. I told them two years ago that if they bring up the news to me, I’ll send them photos of horse vaginas giving birth. Then they stopped mentioning him, and everything is fine.”
