President Trump tweeted a photoshop of his head on Rocky Balboa's body and the WaPo is ON IT

Shot. . .

President Trump tweeted this pretty funny photoshop out earlier today of his head on Rocky Balboa’s body from “Rocky III”:

pic.twitter.com/11nzKwOCtU

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2019

Chaser. . .

And the Washington Post thought this was important enough to include on its “Impeach Inquiry Live Updates” page:

Trump tweets doctored photo of his head on Sylvester Stallone’s body, unclear why https://t.co/WQwG5tSXtZ

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 27, 2019

Thankfully we have the WaPo to tell us it wasn’t real:

Wait that wasn’t real https://t.co/WgMPMSExcy

— Jeremy Schneider (@J_Schneider) November 27, 2019

And this is not the dunk they think it is:

Prestigious news publication thinks substanceless Trump tweets are particularly newsworthy, unclear why. https://t.co/tlR633w5dW

— Jonathan H. Adler (@jadler1969) November 27, 2019

Holy hell it must be painful to be this lacking in a sense of humor. Thoughts and prayers in this difficult time. Also, congrats on hitting your end of month click metrics. https://t.co/0XXT2xY4bi

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) November 27, 2019

The corporate press is both the enemy of the people and, due to their inability to reflect, increasingly a self-parody#doctoredhttps://t.co/lPwy8csNJE

— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) November 27, 2019

Screenshot for posterity:

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