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We interrupt this column to bring you the latest shocking development from the White House.

It emerged last night that President Donald Trump has used an executive order to announce his plans to change the two-centuryold Latin inscription on the nation’s seal.

As of April this year the US seal will no longer bear the legend “E pluribus unum” (out of many, one) but rather Trump’s own family motto: “Carpe pudendum.”

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