WaPo savages Trump after he grants interview, called ‘hellish’

His reward on Monday: One Post columnist predicted a “hellish” four years for the media under Trump, and another column suggested that Trump is to blame for the fallout of Rep. John Lewis calling him an illegitimate president.

Trump won front page coverage for his interview promise of “insurance for everybody,” his pledge to push drug companies to cut prices, and plan to cut corporate and individual taxes.

But elsewhere he was mocked in the paper that has pledged to expand its Trump-watching team.

On top of the Style section, for example, columnist Margaret Sullivan suggested that Trump will abuse the press.

“The short form: hellish,” she wrote. “Trump will punish journalists for doing their jobs,” she added.

Still more: “So, we can expect President Trump to lie to the media, manipulate reality and go after those who upset the notion that adulation is his birthright.”

And in an oped column, it was Trump who was singled out for not reaching out to his critics after Lewis slapped him. Said the oped:

“With his Twitter attack on civil rights icon John Lewis during the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, after Lewis challenged the legitimacy of his election, Trump showed how little interest he has in reaching out to his critics. He made it hard to imagine that he would use his inaugural address, as presidents traditionally have, to bring the country together.”

Ignored was Trump’s Twitter promise delivered Sunday:

For many years our country has been divided, angry and untrusting. Many say it will never change, the hatred is too deep. IT WILL CHANGE!!!!

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]