What Trump no doubt hoped to see in the aftermath of that visit was newspaper front pages that looked something like what the New York Daily News offered.

There’s Trump, flag held aloft, the focus of the story. Sure the “heckuva job” line, evoking the failed response to Hurricane Katrina by the administration of George W. Bush, isn’t ideal, but generally, Trump’s visit resulted in a cover that he was no doubt happy to see.

The New York Post, though, didn’t come through.

No Trump at all! This from the tabloid that’s been a ready source of Trump news for decades, but on this day, the president didn’t even get a small photo anywhere on the cover.

In fact, a survey of major newspapers from across the country shows that, for the most part, front-page coverage was dominated by photos and stories about the storm, playing down or ignoring Trump’s visit. When he appeared at all, the front-page coverage was a small picture of Trump accompanying a story mostly about something else.

Of newspapers in the area hit by Harvey, only the Corpus Christi Caller-Times dedicated its full front page to the president’s visit — not unexpected, given that he visited the city itself.

Trump will have a second bite at the apple, with another trip planned to Texas this weekend that his press secretary insisted would include meetings with evacuees.