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The entire country of Vietnam is suffering from PTSD after it was visited by President Donald Trump, according to local sources. Every single one of the 95 million people living in Vietnam is said to be suffering from Post-traumatic stress disorder after seeing Donald Trump step foot in their country. ‘Vietnam has been through a lot in the past. It all pales in comparison to seeing that orange spectre of evil walk through our nation,’ said one resident. While some have called Vietnam’s reaction to being visited by Trump extreme, residents have fired back. ‘You don’t know, man. You weren’t there! Many of us are still getting horrible flashbacks of that terrible event,’ said Do Van Dang, one of the worst afflicted. The short trip was also eye-opening for President Trump who says it gave him empathy for US troops who served there during the Vietnam War. ‘I too lost a good friend in Vietnam,’ said Trump, mournfully stroking a picture of Kim Jong-un.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—One day after Melania Trump pronounced herself “the most bullied person in the world,” millions of American voters vowed to put an end to her suffering in 2020. In interviews across the country, sympathetic voters promised to do everything in their power to insure that, as of November, 2020, Melania would no longer be the target of the vicious bullying that has made her the most persecuted human on the planet. “I never realized just how much she was suffering as First Lady,” Carol Foyler, a voter in Lansing, Michigan, said. “It’s up to us as voters to rescue her.” “It was devastating to learn about the torment Melania has been subjected to,” Harland Dorrinson, a voter in Scottsdale, Arizona, said. “I wanted to reach out to her and say, ‘Hang in there, Melania—in two years, no one will ever bully you again.’ ” But Tracy Klugian, of Akron, Ohio, echoed the views of many voters by saying that she wished Melania’s ordeal could end “much sooner” than 2020. “If only this nightmare could be over tomorrow,” she said. “As Melania would say, that would be best.”

The tweet came on the heels of Rouhani’s warning to Trump that hostile policies could lead to the “mother of all wars" with Iran. We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death. Be cautious!” To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018 Within hours, Iranian state-owned news agency IRNA dismissed Trump's tweet, describing it as a "passive reaction" to Rouhani's remarks. The agency, a government mouthpiece, also said Monday that Trump's comment was only mimicking and copying Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who had in the past warned the West to "never threaten an Iranian." Rouhani earlier warned Trump to stop "playing with the lion's tail" and threatening Iran, "or else you will regret it." Trump earlier this year pulled the U.S. out of the international deal meant to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon and ordered increased American sanctions. Trump has suggested Iranian leaders are "going to call me and say 'let's make a deal'" but Iran has rejected talks. Rouhani has previously lashed out against Trump for threatening to re-impose the sanctions, as well as for moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and banning travel to the U.S. from certain Muslim-majority countries.

As immigrant organizers laid bare in February 2017 by shutting down businesses nationwide with a “Day Without Immigrants” strike that exposed the inability of restaurants, construction companies and other businesses to function without their immigrant workforce, the US economy would collapse without the labor of the very immigrants that Republican lawmakers are trying to push out of the country. Last year, the Pew Research Center estimated that some 11 percent of workers in restaurants and bars, some 1.3 million people, are undocumented. “In major cities,” labor activist Saru Jayaraman told The Washington Post, “you’re talking about a restaurant workforce that is maybe 75 percent foreign-born, and maybe 30 to 40 percent undocumented. Their position is that current hiring practices are crucial for the survival of the industry, as Americans are not willing to do agricultural work and increasing wages to attract native-born workers would result in significantly higher food prices or a decline in American food production. The issue is not just with undocumented workers. At one point in the process, House Speaker Ryan and Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows got into a heated nose-to-nose argument over the legislation on the floor of the House chamber. “The talking points,” said Meadows after his tangle with Ryan, “do not match the legislative text.” After a Thursday filled with fuss and feathers, a vote on the second bill was postponed. They are not “taking American jobs.” They are trying not to die, and find themselves ensnared in a long game of profits, prices and politics. To keep profits high and prices low, major US industries like agriculture do not want undocumented workers to have a path to citizenship, as that would require paying them a living wage and even providing benefits like health insurance. “Illegal immigrants are some of the most exploited workers in history,” writes immigration activist Garrett S. Griffin.