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October 9, 2020updated 28 Mar 2023 5:25pm

Daily Mash editor: ‘There’s an incredible amount of fact-checking given we’re technically making everything up’

By Charlotte Tobitt

The editor of the Daily Mash has said “there’s always an angle” for a joke – even when the regimes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson seem beyond satire.

Tom Whiteley said it can feel like it’s “very difficult to get a word in edgeways” when the US President “satirises himself so accurately”.

He gave the example of Trump bragging in 2016 that he is “much more humble than you would understand”.

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