{"id":1384,"date":"2021-01-23T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T10:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phenweb.wordpress.com\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:04:30","slug":"one-morning-in-the-office-take-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/one-morning-in-the-office-take-12\/","title":{"rendered":"One Morning In The Office Take 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">One Morning in the office is a thread on Goodreads<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-44851d3f-9c8c-443a-8197-a481549b3941\">No longer <del>@realDonaldTrump<\/del> <br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/topic\/show\/18458920-one-morning-in-the-office---a-satire?page=3#comment_number_133\">Goodreads full comments<\/a><br>&#8220;This way Mr. President&#8221;<br>&#8220;I know the way, I was Vice-President for eight years you know.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Yes, Sir, Sorry Sir&#8221;<br>&#8220;Why are all these ramps here?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Disability access ramps, Sir&#8221;<br>&#8220;I know <em>what<\/em> they are <em>why<\/em> are they here?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Your predecessor stated you may need them given your advancing years and so on.&#8221;<br>&#8220;What?&#8221;<br><em>Spoken louder<\/em> &#8220;YOUR PREDECESSOR..&#8221;<br>&#8220;Why are you shouting?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Your predecesso&#8230;&#8221;<br>&#8220;You mean Trump.&#8221;<br>&#8220;We&#8217;re  not allowed to say his name Sir, we had instructions from Vice  President, I mean former Vice President Pence, to not allow his name to  be mentioned.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Why were you shouting?&#8221;<br>&#8220;We were told you may be hard of hearing due to your &#8230;.&#8221;<br>&#8220;I&#8217;m not hard of hearing and I&#8217;m not in a wheelchair&#8221; <br>&#8220;But you are older than&#8230;&#8221;<br>&#8220;Enough!&#8221; They enter the famous room. &#8220;At last the Oval office.&#8221;<br>&#8220;We decorated as you wished Sir, the busts and pictures have been changed &#8211; caused quite some commotion with your prede..&#8221;<br>Scowl from new President<br>&#8220;&#8230; I mean President Trump as he had some other busts he wanted to keep.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Best we don&#8217;t go into that.&#8221;<br>&#8220;No Sir, his letter is on the desk.&#8221;<br>&#8220;The one with the postmark from Moscow.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Yes Sir, special delivery.&#8221;<br><br>The President sits behind the desk and surveys the Oval Office. He scans the room with a small smile of satisfaction on his face, before his vision alights on a board on one wall.<br><br>&#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221;<br>&#8220;For you Sir to help.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t that a picture of my wife?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Yes Sir, in case you forget.&#8221;<br> How dare you! I know who my wife is&#8221;<br>&#8220;At the moment Sir, this is in case it gets worse.&#8221;<br>&#8220;What gets worse?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Your dementia, Sir&#8221;<br>&#8220;What dementia?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Have you forgotten already?&#8221;<br>&#8220;I do not have Dementia!&#8221;<br>&#8220;Your predece\u2026&#8221;<br>&#8220;Damn my predecessor!&#8221; Takes deep breath. &#8220;Who&#8217;s the Black Lady in the photo&#8217;s&#8221;<br>&#8220;Your VP Sir.&#8221;<br>&#8220;I have a black female VP?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Yes Sir, don&#8217;t you remember you were elected with her.&#8221;<br>&#8220;The one on the capital steps?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Yes Sir at the inauguration.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Didn&#8217;t recognise her without her mask. Where is she?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Managing the Senate and drawing up your first executive orders. They should be here later this morning. She sent instructions to make sure you have your afternoon nap and I have to disconnect the hot line.&#8221;<br>&#8220;The Moscow hot line?&#8221;<br>&#8220;No, Sir the Deliveroo and MacDonald fast order hotline. We missed it during your prede\u2026 Mr Trumps departure. It&#8217;s that one next to the pictures of all your staff.&#8221;<br>The President attempts to change the TV Channel&#8221;What&#8217;s wrong with this TV I can&#8217;t change the channel from Fox?&#8221;<br>&#8220;All the other channels were disabled Sir.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Change it.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Yes Sir&#8221;<br>&#8220;And get rid of this&#8221; He pulls a book from a drawer<br>&#8220;What is it?&#8221;<br>&#8220;The Dummies Guide to Tweeting\u2026.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Morning in the office is a thread on Goodreads No longer @realDonaldTrump Goodreads full comments&#8220;This way Mr. President&#8221;&#8220;I know the way, I was Vice-President for eight years you know.&#8221;&#8220;Yes, Sir, Sorry Sir&#8221;&#8220;Why are all these ramps here?&#8221;&#8220;Disability access ramps, Sir&#8221;&#8220;I know what they are why are they here?&#8221;&#8220;Your predecessor stated you may need them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,888],"tags":[199,298,398,572,829],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-commentary-blogs","category-one-morning-in-the-office-satire","tag-donald-trump","tag-goodreads","tag-joe-biden","tag-potus","tag-xi","post_format-post-format-aside"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}