Proof that there is still intelligent and funny life in the US of Donald Trump came this weekend in two forms: Barack Obama spoke again for the first time since Trump came to power and the New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz wrote a marvellous satirical piece about it. While Obama managed not to mention Trump’s name once in his address at the University of Chicago, Borowitz wrote a piece for The New Yorker entitled, "Obama’s barrage of complete sentences seen as brutal attack on Trump". "Obama fired off a punishing fusillade of grammatically correct sentences, the likes of which the American people have not heard from the White House since he departed," he said, citing "students" who noted that his use of complete sentences, which "had both nouns and verbs in them" was the "most vicious takedown" of Trump they had ever seen. Trump’s response is yet to come, but when it does it will likely be short, swift and tweeted: "Sad!" Will old gamers please stand up The Bank of Canada may not be known ...
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