The WaPo piece is itself written tongue in cheek. The writer knows Trump didn’t literally mean it was a mile high. The writer was making a joke.
This kind of thing is why JimRob makes people put satire warnings on posts.
If this is true, where is your proof of this? From your comments it sounds like the WaPo author writing this tongue-in-cheek himself is just your guess or speculation. "....You know it is possible the piece was written a bit tongue in cheek. Just tossing it out there...."
I read the Washington Compost article and it is described as a "political analysis". I see no indication that this was a satirical or tongue-in-cheek article, given their history of almost constant negative reporting on Trump. After all, Philip Bump is not known for his satire.
All I read was an attempt to nitpick the president's efforts and statements on the fast food lunch in the WH.
None of the comments below the article gave any indication that anybody else reading and commenting thought it was tongue-in-cheek either.
I also read all of comments on this FR thread and you seem to be the only one who thinks that it is satire.
So where do you get this idea that the author, Philip Bump, was being satirical, if no one else does? Conjecture on your part? Or am I and the rest of the FReepers missing something?