NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)
(Sátira)—Just days after picking Betsy DeVos to run the Department of
Education, President-elect Donald Trump has tapped another wealthy outsider by
naming Joaquín Guzmán, known as “El Chapo,” to head the Drug Enforcement
Administration.
In an official statement, Trump said that El Chapo’s
“tremendous success in the private sector” showed that he has what it takes to
“shake things up” at the D.E.A.
Trump’s appointment of the former drug lord surprised many
in Washington, in no small part because acrimony between the two allegedly
prompted El Chapo, in 2015, to put a hundred-million-dollar bounty on Trump’s
head.
But, appearing on CNN, the Trump surrogate Kellyanne Conway
said that the selection of El Chapo should surprise no one. “Mr. Trump always
said that he would surround himself with the best people,” she said.
When asked why Trump had readily offered a job to El Chapo
while still mulling the fate of another former adversary, Mitt Romney, Conway
said, “El Chapo might not have voted for Mr. Trump, but that’s because he’s
Mexican and in jail, and Mitt Romney is neither.”
The appointment of the former drug kingpin is far from a
done deal, however, as associates of El Chapo report that he is “concerned”
that being a member of the Trump Administration would be bad for his brand.
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De THE NEW YORKER, 28/11/2016
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