Trump Cuts Veteran Suicide Hotline Funding?

On 11 March 2017, the web site The Satira Tribune published an article reporting that President Donald Trump had cut funding for the veteran suicide hotline to avoid the appearance of "our

soldiers being weak":

The political move will cut spending by 40% to $450,000 per year.

“We don’t want the showing of our soldiers being weak, so I’m closing that hotline down at some point. Trust me, I’m doing them a favor,” said President Donald Trump. “In the long run, they

will all be thanking me about how it was genius, extremely genius move on my part.”

Trump aids said he worked on this hundred thousand dollar hotline that serviced nearly 2 million veterans per month. “His top priority this week was to cut the veteran suicide thing hotline

or whatever,” said an aid. “He was obsessed with it.”

This article was a piece of fiction from The Satira Tribune, a web site with a