WASHINGTON D.C. – The American Fact-Checking Institute (AFCI) and the Global Truth Verification Alliance (GTVA) jointly announced their immediate cessation of operations today, citing an unprecedented and economically unfeasible volume of controversial statements and actions emanating from the current administration. The decision comes just hours after the 40th 'highly debatable' incident attributed to former President Donald J. Trump in a mere 39-day period.

“Our algorithms, designed to process approximately 3.7 controversial claims per fiscal quarter, simply buckled under the strain,” stated Dr. Philomena Grout, former Chief Veracity Officer for the AFCI, from a makeshift office in her garage. “We were generating 1,200-word analyses on a daily basis, often before the previous day’s analysis had even been fully fact-checked itself. It was a self-sustaining absurdity loop, and frankly, our servers started melting.”

The GTVA echoed these sentiments, with spokesperson Bartholomew 'Barty' Higgins lamenting, “We had to hire 7,000 new interns just to categorize the 'potentially problematic' tweets. They all quit after two weeks, citing 'existential dread' and 'a profound inability to distinguish satire from policy.' Our last intern was found muttering about 'alternative facts' while trying to verify the existence of gravity.”

Economists predict a surge in public confusion and a 17% increase in people just shrugging and saying, 'Well, what are you gonna do?' The White House, when reached for comment, reportedly responded with a 280-character statement that was immediately flagged as 'requiring further context' by a single, exhausted AI bot that is now the sole remaining fact-checking entity globally.