“I just signed an Executive Order changing the New Jersey State Bird to the Middle Finger,” Murphy tweeted.

Text at the bottom of the executive order, however, makes it clear that the announcement is only a joke.

“HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!” it reads.

Murphy’s gag on Friday came as others around the country are playing pranks for April Fools’ Day.

In the text of the fake executive order, the governor wrote: “WHEREAS, it is important for State symbols to reflect New Jersey’s culture and values; and WHEREAS, New Jersey drivers are famous for their skills, enthusiasm, and expressive hand gestures; NOW, THEREFORE, I, PHILIP D. MURPHY, Governor of the State of New Jersey … do hereby ORDER and DIRECT the following.”

“The State Bird is hereby changed from the American Goldfinch to the Middle Finger,” he wrote.

Twitter user @reneeanne responded to Murphy’s joke, calling it “believable.”

“I flew into Newark and was on the road less than 10 minutes before another driver flipped my driver the bird and then threw change at our car,” the user wrote.

“Obviously an April Fools joke,” Twitter user @EvelynDarque wrote. “That was already the State Bird.”

“Thought this was already the case, TBH,” New Jersey news outlet NJ.com wrote on Twitter, retweeting to Murphy’s message.

In another April Fools’ joke from a state official on Friday, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wrote a fake legal opinion arguing that the state of Kentucky would once again become part of Virginia.

“Today, I’ve issued a new Attorney General Opinion. Recently discovered archives show that the vote to create the Commonwealth of Kentucky was illegitimate. The Commonwealths are once again united—welcome home,” Miyares wrote on Twitter.

A poll conducted by YouGov last year found that in general 45 percent of Americans find April Fools’ pranks amusing, while 47 percent find them annoying, with those under 30 as the biggest fans of April Fools’ Day jokes.

In a Reddit post that went viral on Friday, users discussed the worst April Fools’ pranks that they’ve done, or have been done to them.

A British beer company also faced blowback over an April Fools’ prank Friday, when people were told they had won free beer for life as part of a marketing stunt.