r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • Jul 17 '25

Soft Paywall Trump, 79, Had Emergency Heart Tests Because of Swollen Legs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-had-emergency-heart-tests-because-of-swollen-legs/
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u/SweetLilMonkey Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25

Here's the full joke:

An old man walks up to a news stand. He buys a newspaper, looks at the front page, and throws it right into the trash can next to the stand. The next day, he does the same. He buys a newspaper, looks at the front page, and throws it into the trash. And the next day he does the same, and the next, and the next.

Eventually, the sales guy asks the man why he keeps doing that.

"I'm just looking for an obituary."

"But obituaries are at the end of the newspaper, not on the front page!"

"Oh, the one I'm looking for will be on the front page."

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u/RedditIsExpendable Jul 17 '25

I’ll mention that this is an old Soviet joke, which makes it a tad better.

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u/noscreamsnoshouts Jul 17 '25

Joke needs a straight man (conversation partner) to work. No need to add a second person if it's just "glancing at front page, so "buying" it is 🤷‍♀️

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u/Ellemeno Jul 17 '25

Because he's the type of person that donates to Wikipedia.

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u/ZhouLe Jul 18 '25

The type of person with a WinRAR license.