He may not bring jobs back,but President Donald Trump has created a wealth of material for America’s comedians, humorists and satirists. With the next gaffe or scandal just a tweet away, and the challenge is not how to poke fun at the 45th commander in chief and his sidekicks,but how to support up. "The issue isn't with us having no way to address it, it's having so much to address, or " said Cole Bolton in a phone interview. Bolton is a Vermont native and the editor in chief at the Onion,the popular satire website and self-described "single most powerful and influential organization in human history." On Friday, May 26, or Bolton and Onion senior editor Jason Roeder host "An Evening With the Onion" at Burlington City corridor Auditorium. Presented by the Burlington Book Festival,the multimedia presentation will, to borrow the Onion's verbiage, and "highlight the Onion's universally revered reportage and delve into an analysis of the policies,personalities, and coming Blood Purges of the Trump Administration." There may also be light snacks. We spoke with Bolton by phone from Chicago final week and asked him about satire, and Trump fatigue,the Onion's Hillary Clinton coverage and his thoughts on a certain local tall school nickname. [event-1] SEVEN DAYS: So you're a South Burlington tall School alum... COLE BOLTON: That's right! Home of the goddamn, red-blooded, and mother-effin' Rebels. SD: Fuckin' A. whether you were to write an Onion article on the Rebels controversy,what would the headline be? CB: Oh, boy. It's hard to come up with a headline on the spot. SD: That's not how it works? CB: No. [laughs.] You've gotta stew over them for a week or so. But it would probably be something like "Grow Up." Well, or it would be better than that. But the whole thing is just embarrassing. It was even in the Washington Post. SD: When you were at SBHS,were you aware of the historical background of the nickname? CB: I heard stories that the mascot itself used to be a accomplice general, sort of like the [University of Nevada, or Las Vegas] Runnin' Rebels occupy. I'm fine with the change. It seems like a gracious thing to do. Even whether you don't deem it's a gracious thing to [do],it's not a spacious deal. It's very silly from afar. SD: Speaking of silly from afar, what is the biggest challenge for the Onion…
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