put a link to a washington post article titled "trump's budget makes perfect sense and will fix mts and i will tell you why." sounds positive, but it's a piece of satire. and it roundly criticizes the budgets. joining me now is the author of that piece. in it you say, how will i survive on this budget? i am not a human child, not a costly fighter jet. you may not survive, that is because you are soft and weak. something this sbujt designed to eliminate. how do you feel knowing that the white house didn't actually read your article or, worse, that they read your article and didn't get the joke? >> well, honestly whether they took me literally or seriously, i'm just flattered to finally be in the ranks of real news. >> so what -- when you wrote