The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank promised last October that he’d eat his column if billionaire businessman Donald Trump became the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.
And now, he has to eat it. On Tuesday, after Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, suspended his campaign, and Trump became the presumptive GOP nominee, Milbank signaled he’d make good on his promise.
“The cook-off is coming,” he said on social media.
The cook-off is coming. Send recipes and cc Chef @VictorAlbisu https://t.co/t5g1xdUweC
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) May 4, 2016
Last fall, Milbank had no doubt that Trump would eventually bow out of the race.
“I’m so certain Trump won’t win the nomination that I’ll eat my words if he does. Literally: The day Trump clinches the nomination I will eat the page on which this column is printed in Sunday’s Post,” he wrote.
However, it didn’t take long before the Post columnist was singing a different tune.
“I am taking the prudent step of preparing to eat my words in case Trump secures the nomination,” he wrote on March 25.
Now, with Trump’s remaining GOP competitors suspending their campaigns this week, Milbank told CNNMoney he would follow through with his promise “as soon as I can,” and prepare a dish incorporating his Sunday column.
“The recipes we’ve assembled look quite promising,” he said. “But we need time to assemble all the … ingredients.”
