WaPo Story On Trump’s Fast Food Dinner Is An All You Can Eat Fake News Buffet

Will we ever reach peak hysteria or is the country doomed to crap like this?

It’s getting more difficult to believe that the Washington Post was once a bastion of great investigative journalism but Watergate was one heck of a long time ago.

The once venerable newspaper has been mired in the muck of tabloidism, pushing fake news stories based on anonymous sources and serving as the central transmission station for anti-Trump propaganda since mid-2015 when the bombastic outsider declared his candidacy.

The WaPo even rebranded itself after Trump’s election (which they failed to prevent) with an ominous new slogan “Democracy Dies In Darkness” that sounds more like the tagline for a Batman movie than a mission statement befitting the young crusaders who worked to run President Richard M. Nixon out of office.

But it’s been a long time since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were portrayed by the dashing young Hollywood sex symbols Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman and just as the two famous reporters have become bloated courtiers of the corrupt establishment, so the Washington Post which may as well just rename itself as Pravda on the Potomac.

There has been hysteria aplenty ever since Trump welcomed the NCAA football champion Clemson Tigers to the White House and served up a huge fast food buffet but few media outlets have stooped to the ridiculous level of the WaPo and its ludicrous infographic where all of the burgers, fries, and pizzas were located.

Excerpted from the blockbuster “President Trump’s extravagant, $3,000, 300-sandwich celebration of Clemson University”:

The Tigers, who won the national college football championship after not having to play my alma mater Ohio State, had the traditional meeting with the president, enjoying remarks from South Carolina’s senators after retiring to the State Dining Room for a meal.

A meal that was made up of fast food from various national chains.

“Because the Democrats refuse to negotiate on border security,” a statement from press secretary Sarah Sanders explained, “much of the residence staff at the White House is furloughed — so the president is personally paying for the event to be catered with some of everyone’s favorite fast foods.”…

So here’s the spread on the main table as it looked before the players’ entrance. Once they were in the room, of course, those various hamburgers and (probably to a lesser extent, salads) were quickly plucked from the table.

Ace “reporter” Philip Bump also donned his fact checker hat like any good worker bee in George Orwell’s Ministry Of Truth and tried to accuse the president of being a liar over the number of burgers that found happy homes in the hungry tummies of the college athletes.

Also via the WaPo:

In other comments, Trump — in true Trump fashion — suddenly more than tripled the hamburger count.

FACT CHECK: At two inches each, a thousand burgers would not reach one mile high.

Had Trump instead invested his entire net worth — $3.1 billion per Forbes last year — on $5 sandwiches, each two inches high? A stack of hamburgers nearly 20,000 miles high.

It would require quite a large silver serving platter.

By today’s dismal journalistic standards, this may even snag the WaPo a Pulitzer Prize for such earth-shattering reporting on a matter of grave national importance.