JOURNALISM: White House reporters keeping tabs on sinkhole, clouds, bag of wet socks

Brett T. | 7:48 PM on May 22, 2018

We’re old enough to remember slow news days, but there’s something really strange going on with the White House press corps lately.

Playboy’s White House reporter and CNN analyst Brian Karem, who’s been known to console the occasional particularly woke kid whom Trump hates, noted some clouds over the White House Tuesday.

Storm clouds over the White House . Metaphorically and in reality pic.twitter.com/Cc9rDIYAjH

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 22, 2018

Journalism dies in darkness https://t.co/xTBbeFESpT

— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) May 22, 2018

wow that is very clever

you must be a writerhttps://t.co/ysXmkfTOgR

— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) May 22, 2018

However, more reporters had their eyes on the ground, keeping track of a growing sinkhole outside the press briefing room:

Sinkhole Appears on White House Lawn https://t.co/Cbd6zrQi0U

— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) May 22, 2018

CBS reports that the sinkhole has been “confirmed by groundskeepers.”

This week I’ve been observing a sinkhole on the @WhiteHouse North Lawn, just outside the press briefing room, growing larger by the day. pic.twitter.com/BsFUtxFqpB

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) May 22, 2018

#ThanksObama https://t.co/o5dSIPKBFw

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) May 22, 2018

Even CNN’s Jim Acosta managed to work a sly dig at the Trump administration into his tweet about the sinkhole. “Swampy weather,” get it?

Perhaps due to the swampy weather in DC lately. ? There’s a sinkhole in the North Lawn of the White House. ? @MarkWalzCNN pic.twitter.com/m5AeDRDsvn

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 22, 2018

Yes, that’s a photograph of a videographer shooting footage of the sinkhole — very meta.