Headlines: "Donald Trump to lay out plan for combating ISIS"

[Dante]

Headlines: "Donald Trump to lay out plan for combating ISIS"

I hear he will shout out to his adoring cult "Believe me, we are going to build a wall around the Caliphate, and get ISIS to pay for it!"

 

[Dante]

I have to wonder "Does this qualify as satire?"

I also wonder because this http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/us/politics/donald-trump-black-voters.html has been pushed as straight political news.

What has become of satire and irony?

 

[konradv]

I have to wonder "Does this qualify as satire?" I also wonder because this http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/us/politics/donald-trump-black-voters.html has been pushed as straight political news. What has become of satire and irony?

It's a tough call because most of what Trump says would be considered satire, if said by someone else, making it hard to separate real news from fake news.