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?
Freepers are more than capable of not getting the joke. That’s why JimRob had to start putting satire alerts on certain posts. Because you’d have these embarrassing threads full of people yelling at a piece that was obviously written in jest.
I’m not sure exactly how to *prove* that something is a joke, but here is some evidence: writer Matt Vespa at Townhall concluded that the WaPo piece was a joke. He did struggle with it but finally came to the right conclusion.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3720230/posts?