[Ed. – Evidently the Washington Post’s Philip Bump is unfamiliar expressions like ‘I’m hungry enough to eat a horse’ and other examples of harmless exaggeration. The irony is that the title of the piece — ‘President Trump’s extravagant, $3,000, 300-sandwich celebration of Clemson University’ — uses a little exaggeration in calling a $3,000 cash outlay ‘extravagant.’]
There is one other asterisk worth noting. In other comments, Trump — in true Trump fashion — suddenly more than tripled the hamburger count.
Trump says they bought “1,000 burgers” for Clemson. “It was piled up a mile high,” he said pic.twitter.com/Nu8EfToB6R
— Tom Schad (@Tom_Schad) January 14, 2019
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FACT CHECK: At two inches each, a thousand burgers would not reach one mile high.
Had Trump instead invested his entire net worth — $3.1 billion per Forbes last year — on $5 sandwiches, each two inches high? A stack of hamburgers nearly 20,000 miles high.
It would require quite a large silver serving platter.
