The 1600 Daily is updated each day with President Trump’s schedule and highlights from the president, first lady, vice president and second lady. White House links to Washington Post satire slamming budget

The White House linked on its online daily briefing page to a satirical Washington Post opinion article with a headline that actually sharply criticizes President Donald Trump’s proposed budget.

The administration’s "1600 Daily" update linked to Alexandra Petri’s opinion piece titled "Trump’s budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why.”


“BUT HOW WILL I SURVIVE ON THIS BUDGET? you may be wondering,” she writes. “I AM A HUMAN CHILD, NOT A COSTLY FIGHTER JET. You may not survive, but that is because you are SOFT and WEAK, something this budget is designed to eliminate.”

Petri writes the Post’s “ComPost blog” which offers “a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day.”

She also criticizes the budget for cutting the state department, EPA, agriculture department, commerce department, labor department and National Institute of Health, among others.

“Clean rivers and breathable air are making us SOFT and letting the Chinese and the Russians get the jump on us,” she writes. “We must go back to the America that was great, when the air was full of coal and danger and the way you could tell if the air was breathable was by carrying a canary around with you at all times, perched on your leathery, coal-dust-covered finger.”

The 1600 Daily is updated each day with President Trump’s schedule and highlights from the president, first lady, vice president and second lady. It also features news reports generally favorable to the administration.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. They deleted the article from their website Friday afternoon.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story had a headline incorrectly stating the Washington Post satire criticized Trump's health care bill. This story has been corrected and updated.