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Washington Post Subscribers Cancel En Masse After Bezos Names Melania Editor

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Andy Borowitz
Feb 06, 2026
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The dwindling number of people who still subscribe to the Washington Post plummeted even further on Thursday after owner Jeff Bezos named Melania Trump the paper’s new editor-in-chief.

Calling the hiring of the First Lady “not a bribe,” Bezos said, “We wanted to find someone who wouldn’t be tainte…

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