Truth In Satire

10 Controversial Lines Cut From The President’s State of the Union Address

Even nutcase, right-wing speechwriter Stephen Miller found these passages too contentious to leave in Mr. Trump’s speech

Allan Ishac
4 min readJan 30, 2018

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“Torture needs to be one of the tools available to our intelligence agencies to get good information. And the first torturee is going to be Rosie O’Donnell.” (Credit: latimes.com)

The White House says that President Trump is more determined than ever to deliver a barn burner of a State of the Union address on Tuesday night.

Even insensate android Stephen Miller was aghast at some of the lines Donald Trump wanted to add to his State of the Union address. (Credit: washingtonexaminer.com)

The president apparently told his head speechwriter, the diabolical cyborg Stephen Miller, that he wants to use the address to drive home some of his most extreme policy positions and satisfy his base, even suggesting several hard-hitting lines that he wanted the dispassionate automaton to consider.

But the robotic Miller found ten of the sentences too controversial for even his evil ears, as well as potential ammunition for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Mr. Trump’s presidency, so he put the kibosh on retaining the lines.

A source inside the White House, however, leaked the offensive language discarded from President Trump’s speech, one he’s scheduled to deliver to…

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Allan Ishac

Author of The Mystic In The Mews (themysticinthemews.com). Satirist. Humor writer. Former advertising creative director. Visit me at allanishac.com.