Donald Trump has today shown that he is a master satirist by appearing to credulously retweet a joke news story about his opponent.
The president, whose administration is a four-year-long Dadaist art-crime created to shatter consensus reality, retweeted a “news” item by satirical website the Babylon Bee, which claims to have been running for 6,000 years and describes its reporting as “fake news you can trust”. The article in question reports that Twitter had closed its entire social network and destroyed all of its servers, with hammers, in order to prevent negative coverage of Joe Biden from spreading.
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