Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is eating his words about Donald Trump -- in the form of ground newspaper dumplings, falafel, chilaquiles, and even a Trump-inspired taco bowl.

Back in October, Milbank wrote a column predicting the demise of the billionaire's presidential ambitions.

The headline: "Trump will lose, or I will eat this column."

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"Literally: The day Trump clinches the nomination I will eat the page on which this column is printed in Sunday's Post," Milbank wrote last year. "I have this confidence for the same reason Romney does: Americans are better than Trump."

The Post writer, of course, was proven very wrong earlier this month, when Trump became the Republican party's presumptive nominee shortly after Indiana held its primary.

Milbank delivered on his headline's promise Wednesday.

The Washington Post carefully curated a nine-course meal to document the occasion including newspaper chilaquiles, dumplings, falafel, steaks ("well-done" the way Trump likes them), and even a Trump Tower-inspired taco bowl. The dishes, prepared by the head chef at Washington, D.C.'s Del Campo restaurant, Victor Albisu, creatively incorporated newspaper pages into the recipes -- with some of the ink "mercifully well-ground" into the steak's chimichurri sauce, or sprinkled into the guacamole topping the taco bowl, or mixed into the chickpeas of the falafel.

To wash it all down: some Trump wines. Milbank pronounced one Trump-branded sauvignon blanc terrible "but consumable," while Trump's chardonnay tasted as if "something just went wrong."

Milbank consumed it all on a live Facebook video stream.

The hour-long meal, with recipes solicited from Washington Post readers, can be seen in full here:



Later, Milbank said the experience "actually turned out not to be too bad at all."

"It was not all that painful," he told Facebook viewers. "And certainly not anywhere near as painful as it's going to be over the next six months."