This doesn’t surprise me at all. They are just printing crap to get a twitter response from Trump.
What does surprise me is that after all the bogus stuff the media has put out over the last 2 years, anybody listens to them or actually believes them.
There is more truth on the Cartoon Network, than in the media.
See, the two WASHPO propagandists (er, writers) are not claiming it is a true statement, merely that "someone" (ie, themselves) is saying it!