Liberals melted down on Twitter late Tuesday night when they saw The Washington Post‘s front page story on Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was headlined, “A call for bipartisanship.”
A little over an hour later, the Post changed the front page of the next morning’s edition of the newspaper — without the headline that triggered so many. The new headline reads: “A ‘new American movement.'”
HAHAHAHAHA, WaPo changed its front page after people complained. Losers. https://t.co/MdxDy6pQaY
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) January 31, 2018
Here’s the initial front page story, headline included.
Here's the front page of tomorrow's Washington Post: pic.twitter.com/5HQmDNoa4r
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 31, 2018
With only 670 retweets and more than 3.7k replies, the tweet got ratio’ed pretty hard. Here’s some of the shade liberals threw at the Post.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/958563493766189056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2018%2F01%2F31%2Fdonald-trump-sotu-washington-post%2F
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/958560509862793216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2018%2F01%2F31%2Fdonald-trump-sotu-washington-post%2F
He went out of his way to stoke unfounded fears of immigrants by branding them murderous gang members and *this* is your headline?
— Zack Hunt (@ZaackHunt) January 31, 2018
Kevin M. Kruse, who wrote a book about “how corporate America invented Christian America” suggested the newspaper would “regret” its headline.
Congrats on a headline you absolutely, positively won't regret tomorrow.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 31, 2018
“Technologist” Tom Coates fact-checked the headline, saying that while Trump talked about bipartisanship, he is not happy that the president hasn’t reached across the aisle more frequently during his first year in office.
Are you actually kidding? His mouth said he wanted to work together but the policies he presented, the framing of the policies – it was all designed to be actively appalling to Democrats. There was nothing bipartisan about it at all.
— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) January 31, 2018
This Brooklyn-based freelance writer called it “weaksauce.”
https://twitter.com/daisandconfused/status/958555405516443648
A former “Survivor” contestant had this to say.
SERIOUSLY??? After Katharine Graham transformed the @washingtonpost into a remarkable newspaper which took down a corrupt American president, THIS IS THE HEADLINE YOU GO WITH??? At least she’s not alive to see this complicit bullshit. https://t.co/69qHodTEzv
— Eliza Orlins (@elizaorlins) January 31, 2018
The paper also nixed a separate headline, “Trump delivers message of unity: President highlights military, economy,” and otherwise rearranged the layout of the front page reporting on Trump. Here’s the revised version.
This page was updated after the first edition. Here is the final front page. pic.twitter.com/nfR7p2wEPB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 31, 2018
Some were still not happy with the Post‘s changes.
https://twitter.com/daisandconfused/status/958570116152811522
@washingtonpost trying to fix their headline tonight pic.twitter.com/Bvbdl1KXjF
— LMS (@LMSCKQ) January 31, 2018
— Jake Snider (@jakehsnider) January 31, 2018
Adam Parkhomenko, former advisor to Hillary Clinton, pointed out that she first used the same line in 2010.
fixed it for you pic.twitter.com/kY0QN2huGp
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 31, 2018
— Jake Snider (@jakehsnider) January 31, 2018
