In perhaps the most surprising move at the end of a week full of surprises, controversies, left-turns, and lies, the Trump administration today revealed that the POTUS Twitter account had been taken over by the ghost of avant-garde absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco. "It shows our deep commitment to the arts," Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. "As well as our deep commitment to language-based examples of the futility of human existence."

The White House stated "it just made sense" for them to hand over the reins to the deceased French-Romanian writer after the president's personal Twitter account quickly devolved into a series of nonsensical sentence fragments and malapropisms.

"We think the American people deserve to know the truth," Sanders told the press. "And we will do everything in our power to keep them from it, up to and including completely deconstructing the English language."

Sanders continued, "The president's tweets may look like refrigerator magnet poetry but, jokes on you, they're the work of an artistic genius." Ionesco, of course, is the author of such classics as Rhinoceros and The Bald Soprano, now being developed as an Adam Sandler vehicle for Netflix. When alive, he was known for extracting the banal details of life and blowing them up into absurd, surrealist soundscapes. Now that he is dead, he is best known as the literal ghostwriter of the president's tweets. Sanders characterized this development as "a promotion."

Ionesco Fever seems to be quickly spreading today, as others in the political news sphere raced to ape the inane style of the Exit the King author's tweets.

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When pressed for details about why the White House chose the ghost of Ionesco to represent them on social media, Sanders demurred and directed the press to the official release which was also authored by Ionesco. The text of the release can be read below.

"Bon jour America!

How are you feeling?

Are your pumps primed?

Are your sleeves laughing?

Are your leaks 'taped?'

Where are you, America?

Are you in the bushes?

Are you among the bushes?

Are you around the bushes?

Do you miss the Bushes?

Are your primes pumping?

Are your laughs sleeving?

Are your 'tapes' leaking?

Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

Are you showboating?

Are you grandstanding?

Are you showstanding?

Are you grandboating?

Do your boats leak?

Did you try 'tape?'

Do you have a certified letter promising that you aren't under investigation?

Do you have a certified investigation promising that you aren't a man of letters?

Do you swear to the tell the whole truth with a few exceptions?

Do you swear to tell the whole exceptions with a few truths?

Do you own property in Russia?

Are you happy to be in Paris?

Are you distracted by Russia?

Are you thinking to yourself 'you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story'?

Is Russia the elephant in the room?

Is the elephant the Russian in the room?

Is the room an elephant in Russia?

Did you know the Oval Office has no corners?

Are you pumping your prime in public?

Are you 'taping' your leaks in private?

Are your sleeves hilarious?"

The release goes on like that for another seven hours. But you get the point. When asked for clarification by email, Sanders wrote back "It means everything. And nothing. Nothing means nothing. Everything means everything. But her emails."

The Ionesco takeover is scheduled to continue indefinitely, followed by a takeover by the Ghost of Samuel Beckett, whenever he arrives.

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