Seth Meyers Lists Words Trump Wants to Ban—Like “Neo-Nazis”
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Following the widespread uproar over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new list of seven words to be kept, whenever possible, out of official budget documents for next year, Seth Meyers guesses that Donald Trump has a few additional words of his own that he’d like to see banned. Among them? Coal, neo-Nazis, and the F.B.I.
As reported by The New York Times, the agency was advised against using these specific words in budget documents as a strategy to secure funding from a Republican-dominated Congress. As one former federal official put it, “It’s absurd and Orwellian, it’s stupid and Orwellian, but they are not saying to not use the words in reports or articles or scientific publications or anything else the C.D.C. does. They’re saying not to use it in your request for money, because it will hurt you. It’s not about censoring what C.D.C. can say to the American public. It’s about a budget strategy to get funded.”
Still, there are a few words that Meyers guesses the president would like to see stricken from the lexicon—and he went ahead and listed them all, starting with “coal,” which Meyers said will henceforth be referred to as “patriot rocks.”
“McDonald’s Happy Meals will be called ‘big-boy food,’“ Meyers continued. “Neo-Nazis will be called ‘fun-time torch boys.’ The Civil War will be referred to as ‘the war of good people on both sides.’ Hillary Clinton will be referred to as ‘Prisoner No. 92753.’ . . . Ivanka will be referred to as ‘Princess Vanilla Breeze.’ And the F.B.I. will be called the F.B.H.L., the Federal Bureau of Haters and Losers.”
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