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On 26 January 2017, the satirical web site PoliticalGarbageChute.com posted a story playing off a spate of executive orders signed by newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump (with the headline: President Trump Signs Executive Order Declaring Himself Winner Of 2016 Popular Vote). The story reads: The post is purely satire, meant to play on President Trump's days-long fixation over the crowd size at his 20 January 2017 inauguration and promise to investigate voter fraud in the election that he won by electoral college. (Trump's Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, won the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots.) The story also plays on the fact that Trump did sign a travel ban that resulted in visa and green card holders from seven predominantly-Muslim countries being stopped and deported at airports, and that he has vowed to build a new wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. But the site, which describes itself as laughing AT politicians not WITH them also posted articles with headlines like, Mike Pence Bounds Into The Vice-President’s Office With Manifest Of Vaginae To Register And Regulate and Report: Trump To Officially Declare February 'All Months Matter' Month, which are clearly satire.
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