Presidential pranksters take aim at Bush
Several of the world’s most powerful leaders have today confessed to making persistent practical jokes at US President George W. Bush’s expense, Real Slow News Day reports.
Just four weeks before his retirement from the White House, politicians of all levels have even admitted taking bets on who could perform the most outrageous prank on the President without being discovered, and since Barack Obama’s successful election campaign, have sadly conceded that they must “start trying again”.
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would regularly switch between Sunni and Shia Islam, a joke that, according to insiders, “would often leave Bush frowning and scratching his head in confusion.”
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah managed to coerce the US President to hold his hand after threatening he would refuse all further oil exports if he didn’t comply.
Other foreign leaders to have taken advantage of Bush include Zimbabwean leader, Robert Mugabe, who once donned sunglasses and claimed to be the late Ray Charles, and Chinese President, Hu Jintao, who reportedly managed to convince the American leader that Hawaii was actually Chinese sovereign territory.
The jokes, however, weren’t only confined to international meetings, as a number of state and federal politicians have admitted. Among many reported stories, New Mexico governor, Bill Richardson, phoned Bush with the news that Mexicans had successfully invaded and overthrown his office and relocated their capital city there. White House staffers convinced Bush that at least one of the rooms in the building was made of white chocolate, and, after a viewing of The Matrix one evening, Karl Rove duped his boss into believing that his Chief-of-Staff was, in fact, the Oracle.
When asked for an explanation of their behaviour, husband of Carla Bruni and French President, Nicholas Sarkozy, considered to be the main instigator behind the pranks, was honest but unrepentent. “We may have acted immaturely, but it was too much fun! How often can we say we fooled the President of the United States into believing french fries grow exclusively in a small region of the Pyrenees? Thank you, America.”
President Bush, who left late last night for high-level talks with New Zealand’s leader, Aragorn, son of Arathorn, was unavailable for comment.
