IRS' Lousy Trump Parody Cost $10K

House committee releases another of the training vids
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 7, 2013 10:45 AM CDT

The unfortunate IRS video.
(YouTube)

Remember the IRS training videos that parodied, or tried to parody, Star Trek and Gilligan's Island? Well, the House Ways and Means Committee has found another, this one a takeoff of Donald Trump and The Apprentice, reports CNN. "Another day, another example of abuse and waste at the IRS, says Rep. Charles Boustany. This one cost $10,000, and the agency swears it's not making these kinds of videos anymore. The sad thing is that it's not even good in a bad, campy way. "It is truly awful," writes Joe Coscarelli at Daily Intel. (More IRS stories.)

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