Come on, guys. How the hell am I supposed to parody this? https://twitter.com/LabyrinthWeaver/status/1347226324172066817
This has been the Trump satire issue from day one. You satirise by taking reality and turning it up to 11. But these maniacs are already on about 25.
Remember when fake news went epidemic in 2016? And everybody started making a fuss about it? One of the first viral fake articles had the headline "BREAKING: Obama Confirms Refusal To Leave White House, Announces SICK Plan To Stay In Power”...
That was written as satire, but went viral because people believed it. When I first wrote about fake news, I interviewed the guy who wrote it, John Egan...
The original is not online anymore, but you can read about it here. But now you have Team Trump behaving almost exactly how people used to joke that Team Obama would. For real. And all the people who believed it last time are all for it. It's hopeless. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-confirms-he-will-refuse-to-leave-office/
No, Obama Did Not Confirm He Will Refuse to Leave Office if Trump Wins

A fake news site cranked out an election year fairy tale guaranteed to tickle the fancy of every conspiracy theorist.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-confirms-he-will-refuse-to-leave-office/
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