The Washington Post FactChecking: How Trump's Joke about Burgers Has Been Inspired by Investigative Journalism
2019-01-17T16:25:22.773Z
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The Washington Post published a report about a reception at the White House, for which US President Donald Trump ordered burgers and french fries as fast food. The American leader jokingly noted that if you put all the burgers together, their height would be one mile. This was the reason for serious verification of the facts by journalists of The Washington Post: they found out that Trump was wrong in the calculations.
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