The two “Most Read” stories right now over on WashingtonPost.com are related to the president serving the Clemson football team fast food when the visited the White House on Monday:
LOL. All Trump had to do to change the media narrative about everything else was serve McDonald’s:
A decadent level of lavish hamberder extravagance not seen since Marie Antoinette or the Fall of Rome under Emperor Hambugulahttps://t.co/9aPLcvir4a
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 15, 2019
The No. 2 story above includes a Zapruder-like analysis from The Post’s Philip Bump of all of the wire photos to determine just how many hamburgers were served at the event:
It was far fewer than 1,000 hamberders. https://t.co/zwNyKEs9zL
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 15, 2019
It took a lot of work, including a graphic showing how the food was laid out:
Hamberder fact-check by @pbump -> Analysis | President Trump’s extravagant, $3,000, 300-sandwich celebration of Clemson University https://t.co/jvX6RNDTPm pic.twitter.com/5y9y2gwUDm
— Jon Keegan (@jonkeegan) January 15, 2019
Even worse? Bump fact-checked when Trump said, the burgers were “piled up a mile high”:
Washington Post #BurgerFactCheck dept had the blackboards and calculators out late into the night. For America. pic.twitter.com/RJwnLTcKtY
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) January 15, 2019
Since the pivot to video didn’t work out, they might as well try this:
Recommended
Big Mac statistics die in darkness.
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) January 15, 2019
Because what else could a Washington Post reporter be doing with his time?
I wish @washingtonpost editors had assigned @pbump to analyzing the impact & import of passing an open data & evidence-based policymaking law instead of covering how much Trump’s “hamberders” cost. https://t.co/rNjnwbiwLY https://t.co/ACP1Cvgysh
— Alex Howard (@digiphile) January 15, 2019
Hey, gotta pay the bills somehow:
Extremely jealous that @pbump got paid for this https://t.co/rzbefb2RPt
— Lizzie O'Leary (@lizzieohreally) January 15, 2019
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Related:
NEVER CHANGE: Journos are fact checking Trump on the number of hamburgers he purchased for the Clemson football team https://t.co/PCDxr3w2I7
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 15, 2019
Donald Trump's lib-triggering feast gets the Photoshop treatment https://t.co/jsDoj8nlGf
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 15, 2019