Apparently, the “Yanny or Laurel” craze has reached the White House, as the staff has filmed and released its own video in an attempt to settle the dispute over the audio clip recording, which went viral earlier this week.
Listening to the audio, US President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, has exclaimed that “it’s so clearly Laurel,” and was followed by Raj Shah, Deputy Press Secretary and Nick Ayers, Chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence.
It appears that the audio clip has sown division among White House officials since not everyone hears Laurel: when the man behind the camera told spokeswoman Sarah Sanders that it had been reported that she heard Laurel, she struck back by saying that he had obtained the information from CNN, “because it’s fake news,” thus joining Team Yanny.
Mike Pence, for his part, wondered who Yanny was, but that was just the tip of the iceberg; the epic video wrapped up as Trump declared all he heard was “covfefe,” alluding to his bizarre tweet that went viral last year.