[HotHunt]

Trump didn't literally mean a mile high. He said it with his tongue planted firmly in his cheek.

That what's wrong with liberals today.

They can't take a frickin' joke.

[Yardstick]

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.