It was a practical joke; I swear it was. Or at least that's how it started. I'm an intern in the White House, and my name doesn't matter. What happened is what matters. People were fed up with the politicians not doing their jobs, and elected this buffoon for a president; his name, as I am sure you're aware, is Trump. It should have been a wake-up call for the politicians to wrench their heads out of their asses and perform their jobs; instead, they decided to give Trump free reign thinking people would be begging to have their lazy politicians back. As far as I can tell, that's the only reason it went as far as it did. The politicians wanted to prove to the public how bad a screw-up they made electing Trump.

It started out with jokes around the water cooler about how stupid Trump was. One of the interns thought it would be funny if we took Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and presented it as a bill to see if Trump was stupid enough to sign it. We all thought it would be funny, so we acquired a copy and started working on bringing the language up to date, and changing the context to America, instead of England. One thing led to another, and some senators heard about it. They assisted us with all the legalese to make it look like a valid proposed law. A practical solution to poverty is what it looked like, as long as you didn't read it in any detail, or read any of the appendices. We poor interns didn't realize what a mistake that would turn out to be. The plan had been to slip this fake proposed law in with the other laws Trump was supposed to sign or veto at the end of the month. We even left the name of the bill as "A Modest Proposal." We were going to collect it afterward, then hang it in the intern lounge. It was to be our private joke. It was never supposed to have been made public, let alone what happened.

Those politicians got together. It’s the only good thing I can say about what happened. It didn't matter if they were House or Senate, Republican or Democrat; they all agreed on something. What exactly that something was, I don't know. I know the results of it, though. They took our joke and voted it into law. No one was absent, no one abstained, no one voted against it, and there was no discussion. Our joke passed the House and Senate with 100% backing by both. Trump signed it into law a week later. As for us interns, we didn't have a clue. We learned about it at Trump's' press conference. Our buffoon of a president went on and on about this new law that was the solution to poverty, which had the full backing of the House and Senate.

It took the press less than 24 hours to obtain a complete copy of the law and dumb it down to plain English so that everyone could understand what ALL the politicians had voted for and President Trump signed it into law. Ironically, it was Fox News that associated the law with Jonathan Swift's essay published in 1729. In another ironic twist of fate, Trump wasn't held responsible for having signed it into law, after all, he couldn't very well not sign it when it had the uncontested support of both the House and the Senate. The politicians bore the full brunt of the infuriated mobs. Only a handful are reported to still be alive and in hiding. No one is being prosecuted; not even the guy that shot a Senator on live national TV.