Friday, December 14, 2018

Mulvaney Denies U.S. Citizenship

Minutes after receiving notification that he had been named interim White House Chief of Staff, current budget director Mick Mulvaney held an impromptu press conference where he made a startling announcement:

Mulvaney:  Although deeply honored by this appointment, it has come to my attention that I do not have legal status to work in the United States, so I will be self-deporting back to Ireland as soon as I can find a cheap flight.
Reporter:  Director, how can that be?  You were born and raised in this country.
Mulvaney:  That may be.  But I now know that when my great-grandparents first came to this country, they did not obtain proper immigrant visas beforehand.   Understand?  Illegal immigrants.  This great country that I had mistakenly grown up believing to be my own deserves to be protected from the likes of me.
Reporter:  But Mr. Mulvaney, this country has birthright citizenship.  That means you, your parents, your grandparents, were all legally US citizens.
Mulvaney:  I wish that were true.
Reporter:  But it is true!  Are you sure this isn’t a ploy just to get out of working in the Trump White House?
Mulvaney:  [Laughs nervously] I don’t know where you would get a crazy idea like that, no sirree.  If it were not for this unfortunate circumstance, there is nothing I would like more than to help President Trump implement his brilliant ideas.  But instead, I’ll be back in my homeland catching up with all the Mulvaneys in … um … wherever I can find Mulvaney’s in Ireland, which as you know, is separated from Washington by an ocean.

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