Trump Apologizes For Ill-Timed Honesty

MAR-A-LAGO, Florida -- Fake president Donald Trump has issued an apology to his financial backers and to the Republican party after inadvertently telling the truth on Friday night.  During a dinner discussion of the new tax cut plan with wealthy members of his Mar-a-Lago club, Trump blurted out, "You all just got a lot richer." 

Afterward, an obviously contrite Trump said, "I regret my momentary lack of message discipline, and I'm sorry.  I promise I won't let it happen again."  The billionaire real estate executive and reality TV character explained that, "I got carried away for a second, surrounded by all those tacky gold furnishings and all my $200,000 club members.  I was so proud of myself, I just messed up and told the truth."

"I know my timing wasn't the best," he admitted, but then said, "I think I've done a good job in selling the fiction that the tax plan is a middle-class tax cut which won't benefit wealthy people like me at all.  If I can just stick to that story, I'm pretty sure I can keep fooling a lot of suckers . . . uh, I mean citizens."

Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, "We're not particularly concerned by this.  The president's track record for prevarication is second to none, and we're sure this one brief moment of honesty won't be remembered very long.  He'll get back to lying his ass off soon enough."