There have been mounting concerns from Washington over whether President George Bush actually realizes that he will be out of the White House come 20 January. Despite his advisers having repeatedly explained that he will not be president once Barack Obama is inaugurated, it is thought that the message has failed to successfully filter down into Bush’s awareness of events.
‘Maybe it’s because when we told him he was watching a Real Life Stories Of The Highway Patrol marathon on Fox’, commented White House staffer Peter Hurst; ‘and although he was nodding, the programme volume was loud and the bright lights and loud bangs may have been the President’s primary concern at that point.’

White House chief of staff, Joshua Bolton, has twice this week had to stop Bush from giving an address to the press on his new policies for the coming four years by leading the outgoing Head of State through a maze of passage ways and corridors for over three hours whilst claiming to be lost. Robert Gates, Secretary of State for Defense has also had to sit through several briefings where Bush sets out possible scenarios for handling the war on climate change, mainly involving firing nuclear missiles into the heart of the sun. ‘Someone should sit him down, make sure they have eye contact and go through things slowly with him again,’ he said.

The American public appear divided over how to break the news, or whether it might just be easier to keep Bush in the dark about this for the time being. The incoming regime are actively considering whether it might just be simpler to build a complete replica of the White House and pay his staff to pretend that nothing has happened. ‘It might be expensive but it would be less risk than releasing him out into society and seeing what other damage he might do.’