Updated March 19, 2017 00:34:46

Photo: The White House's 1600 Daily email included a satirical Washington Post article. (Supplied: Washington Post)

The White House's new official email provides its readers with a daily dose of news from the Trump administration, from special events, to a "photo of the day", to a curated selection of media reports.

On Friday, that selection included a link to a Washington Post article titled Trump's Budget Makes Perfect Sense and Will Fix America, and I Will Tell You Why.

The only problem? It was satirical.

Written by columnist and humourist Alexandra Petri, the opinion piece — as it is labelled at the top of the article — mocks the Trump administration's budget.

Mr Trump's proposed budget has flagged massive cuts to the State Department, including UN funding and foreign aid, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as increased funding to the military and border security.

Petri poked fun at the "hard power budget" and likely cuts to humanitarian programs, publicly funded media and UN-funded initiatives.

One section read:

"This budget will make America a lean, mean fighting machine with bulging, rippling muscles and not an ounce of fat. America has been weak and soft for too long.

"BUT HOW WILL I SURVIVE ON THIS BUDGET? you may be wondering. I AM A HUMAN CHILD, NOT A COSTLY FIGHTER JET.

"You may not survive, but that is because you are SOFT and WEAK, something this budget is designed to eliminate."

The article was later removed from the email, but not before screenshots had been shared by several social media users.

Twitter user Molly Templeton wrote: "This was in today's email from the White House.

"So clearly, literally no-one read the linked piece by @petridishes, did they?"

Petri, who jokingly lamented in a tweet that "no-one reads any more", followed up her initial piece with a second one, including the phrase:

"The White House is not full of careless people who skim headlines looking for the ones that sound sort of positive and then send them out in their daily briefing newsletter hoping for the best haaa ha ha nope ha ha these are the minds who control war and peace and the budget and things ha ha ha it's fine ha ha oh god help."

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First posted March 18, 2017 16:43:41