WaPo Tweets Out ‘Final Front Page’ on Trump SOTU After Getting Slammed for the First One

This was the original front page The Washington Post tweeted out for tomorrow:

Here's the front page of tomorrow's Washington Post: pic.twitter.com/5HQmDNoa4r

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 31, 2018

Aaaaand this is what they tweeted out about an hour later:

This page was updated after the first edition. Here is the final front page. pic.twitter.com/nfR7p2wEPB

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 31, 2018

What happened in between those two things?

Well, a lot of people expressed their thoughts about the first one on Twitter:

Love you @washingtonpost but I don't really buy this framing. The speech was fairly conventional stylistically, but the last 3/4 of the speech were quite partisan, substantively, especially by SOTU standards. https://t.co/6b1iuuOE0e

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 31, 2018

What in the hell? https://t.co/6ZlpzYlHw4

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 31, 2018

Not up to the standards of a great newspaper https://t.co/JGxSun5hsC

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 31, 2018

Has this actually been printed yet or can Meryl Streep call a halt? https://t.co/7YBrnMbpee

— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 31, 2018

how could anyone read that speech and see a call for bipartisanship? even on fox news they were – honestly – pointing out that it was partisan and base-heavy. https://t.co/iQeRXZxqWz

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 31, 2018

Is this a joke? “Trump Delivers Message of Unity” https://t.co/bVomrdIv8k

— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) January 31, 2018

democracy dies when we don’t at least TRY to compromise with the nazis https://t.co/BRUsAAo1fH

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) January 31, 2018

A Call for All Lives to Matter https://t.co/hsHTEpRKwX

— Tim Murphy (@timothypmurphy) January 31, 2018

Is this a joke? He basically called all immigrants murderous criminals. https://t.co/I0Li8CFZ6D

— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) January 31, 2018

my god https://t.co/mh6H3Y9MpG

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 31, 2018

The Post is freakin' amazing, but this is the danger of misleading pre-spin and covering a late speech on early print deadlines: https://t.co/yGTMMezyvr

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 31, 2018

That’s definitely not what happened. https://t.co/viOrBtTDWR

— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) January 31, 2018

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