Trump’s Second Term Has Been Full of Surreal Headlines. Can You Tell Which Are Real?

Politics Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images. Stay in the loop on the midterms without spiraling. Every weekday evening, The Slatest explains the day’s biggest news, then points you to the best of the internet so you can log off. Sign up for The Slatest here. Donald Trump has always been a figure of contrasts. On the one hand, he has incited violence, nakedly profited off his office, and repeatedly joked(?) about serving an unconstitutional third term. On the other, he’s a former reality-TV host with an unnaturally tanned face who dances to the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” These days, Trump’s equally menacing and farcical administration isn’t just making the libs mad—it’s approaching Mad Libs levels of absurdism. For the uninitiated, Mad Libs is a decades-old word game in which players fill in the blanks of a prewritten story with random adjectives, nouns, and verbs before reading the surrealist results out loud. And lately, you could be forgiven for thinking Trump is playing one big game of it with the rest of us. Over the past few weeks, the president’s antics have yielded combinations of words heretofore unknown to American politics: I’m talking headlines like “Trump Calls on New Mexico to Change Its Name to ‘New America’,” Truth Social posts in which the president declares that the moon belongs to the U.S., and straight-news articles about how his policies would let hunters in Alaska bait bears with doughnuts soaked in bacon grease. So how well have you been following Trump’s Mad Libs presidency? Let’s see if you can pick the right words to complete the following entirely real headlines. Donald Trump Media Quizzes Slate Games