This is the New Yorker Radio Hour.

Oh, my God.

We're not going to get through this.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour.

I'm Andy Borowitz.

On today's show,

understanding the Trump administration by revisiting an 1881 short story by Guy de Mopasson.

Also, a review of Brooklyn's controversial table-to-farm restaurant. And the creator of Hamilton

unveils his much-awaited new musical about another Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers.

Andy Borowitz, on the nose, as always, and very hurtful, Andy. I think I'm not going to recover. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I actually think some of those segments would work great. The Gita Mopasson thing, you put Adam Gopnik into that, and you've got a home run. I think you do. I'm David Remnick, and today on the New Yorker Radio Hour, what we're really going to do

is talk with some of the leading political satirists working today. So I wanted to start

pretty close to home with Andy, who contributes the Borowitz Report to New Yorker.com.

I could probably just read his headlines for the next half an hour, and we'd all be very,

very happy, but let me ask you this. We're about,

I don't know, what is it, 80 days into the Trump administration? Is that all? Are you exhausted?

It's exhausting. It is exhausting. What's been your favorite moment so far on the Trump administration?

Oh, gosh. I think that learning that Frederick Douglass was still alive made me very happy. I think that the way he kicked off Black History Month with Ben Carson. He's doing a great job. His black friend. And yes, and he, that's one of the real tricky things for satirous in this. It's so hard to improve on the original when he said, you know,

Frederick Douglass, he's been doing a great job. He's been recognized more and more, I notice. And he said it with so much confidence, so much. For a moment there, I thought maybe Frederick Douglas is alive. And it was maybe very happy. And doing a great job. And doing a great job. And from a comedy point of view, who's your favorite member of the cabinet?

Well, that's tricky.

You know, people like Ben Carson and... shot. And from a comedy point of view, who's your favorite member of the cabinet?

Well, that's tricky. You know, people like Ben Carson and the forgotten Rick Perry, who's in there somewhere, the Department of Energy Secretary, they seem like obvious candidates, except that the two of them are barely sentient, so they don't give you very much. And I actually, my favorite, who I think is still a little bit under the radar, is Betsy DeVos.

Why?

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