April Fool's Day Archives

Esurance Wins April Fool’s Day with Election Insurance Ad

April 1, 2016 Trish

Trump or Cruz? Either way, we’re all moving to Canada (ironic that we might be fleeing the Canadian by moving to the land of his birth and first six years), so get your election insurance now!

A Good One on April 1

April 6, 2015 Buck Banks

Over the past few months, my administration has received a lot of recognition for our bipartisan approach to governance. It seems to me that approach is something that is desperately lacking in Washington, D.C. So after much encouragement and reflection, I’ve come to the decision today to announce my candidacy for the president of the United States.

— Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), quoted by the Baltimore Sun, before noting it was April Fool’s Day.

Headlines We’d Like to See When It’s Not April Fool’s Day

April 1, 2013April 1, 2013 Trish

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Tis the season, or at least the day, for a little fakery, so here are some headlines that are too good to be true, even though we wish they were.

Dennis Rodman Promises to Stay Home and Never Visit Anywhere Again
Sen. Marco Rubio Announces Immigration Reform Planning to Begin “Within His Lifetime”
Media Sources Pass One Whole Week Without Commenting on Michelle Obama’s Hair or Dress
Tea Party Leader Explains The Entire Movement is All About Race
“Plots Involving Vampires All Used Up,” Hollywood Studios Say
Sarah Palin Tragedy: Chokes on Big Gulp, Trips Over Teleprompter, Lands in Coma
Fracking Outlawed After Oil Companies Apologize: “We Couldn’t Believe You Let Us Take It This Far. Sorry.”
Scientists Discover Link Between Increased Sugar Consumption and Weight Loss
House Republicans Push Assault Weapons Ban

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Esurance Wins April Fool’s Day with Election Insurance Ad

A Good One on April 1

— Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), quoted by the Baltimore Sun, before noting it was April Fool’s Day.

Headlines We’d Like to See When It’s Not April Fool’s Day

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

“I think it’s embarrassing, still, even more so. I mean, sure, like, take care of yourself, get healthy, but who gets to take four months off of work because they’re sad?”

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) called Rep. Tom Kean Jr’s (R-NJ) explanation on Tuesday for his prolonged absence from Congress “embarrassing” in an interview with TMZ, Mediaite reports.

Numerati

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.

$3.81 billion

53%

A new Cato Institute poll found that only 53% of Americans could correctly identify the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as the historical event marked by July 4. And 46% said they did not know what the day commemorated, including 61% of Gen Z respondents.

$26 million

“President Donald Trump said he had earned at least $26 million in income from an array of new real estate ventures abroad, illustrating how his fortune has grown as his family embraces foreign deal-making in his second term,” Bloomberg reports.