People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

The line turns a cultural lament—“satire is dead”—into a political jab: if public life has become so absurd, then reality itself supplies the satirist’s material. By saying satire is “alive and living in the White House,” Williams suggests that the actions, rhetoric, or scandals of the U.S. presidency have become self-parodying, collapsing the distance between comedic exaggeration and news. The joke also implies a shift in satire’s function: rather than inventing absurdity to expose power, comedians can simply point at power’s own theatrics. It’s a critique of governance as spectacle and a defense of satire’s continued relevance.