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Thursday, October 15, 2026

NEW WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY LIMERICK

by Paul A. Freeman



Cartoon by Gary A. Huck


 

Zakaria, Katie, praised Trump;

a twelve-minute-long verbal hump.

Her stopping and starting

was like verbal farting—

before she is pushed, she should jump!

 

Paul A. Freeman has most recently published The Movement – A Dystopia-Americana Novel. He has had two other novels, a children’s book and an 18,500-word narrative poem published, as well as scores of short stories, poems and articles. He lives and works in Mauritania, Africa.