p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"As I walked into work the next day, everyone was hailing me as a journalistic legend. Ballsy, slightly insane, young, scrappy, and hungry. The article sold more print copies of the Post than had been sold in years. The Post's website had seen lots of traffic to the article, it crashed multiple times over. The buzz this story was causing truly blew me away, but at that rate, that was the goal./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanOn the other hand, however, there was a little meltdown going on in the heart of the White House. Thankfully, my inside sources were letting me know everything that was going on. The first video the source sent me was of the President talking very sternly to his cabinet staff. Something along the lines of "these bastards at the Post are trying to get my ass impeached. What in the actual fuck do they think they're doing?" As soon as I showed that people to the fine folks in the newsroom, we all laughed hysterically. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"As journalists, we know it's our job to report the facts and find the truth in every situation, no matter how insane the cat and mouse chase. They train us on that in college. They don't train us on how to deal with crazy Presidents, however./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Immediately after the Twitter tirade was made available to us, we sure as hell posted it on our social media outlets, because after all, we're reporting the news. However, the tirades just kept coming. We had all seen the President mad before, that of course, was nothing new. Usually though, these tirades were short, mini bursts of anger. The source just kept sending us rants galore. Hell, you could actually see steam coming out of the guy's ears. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"As we got more tirades sent to us, we started to notice a little something. He started talking nukes. Nuclear guns, nuclear weapons, fallout shelters, and what not just seemed to jumble in with his ranting and raving. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"We were all confused with what any of that meant. "I'm going to blow up this place if this fake news keeps spreading." And just like a little toddler, he kept shouting "fake news, fake news!" until the cows come home. For all of us journalists though, we were just used to those cries. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"By mid-afternoon, the mood was still very lackadaisical in the newsroom. While busy, everybody was still riding on an all time high, something not usually seen in a newsroom after a Presidential scandal had been revealed. However, by 3:30, some nerves were starting to get rattled after a tweet by the "dunce in chief."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"We're gonna Make America Great Again at 3:45pm Eastern. You can thank the Washington Post and their FAKE NEWS!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanAnd we all laughed, albeit very nervously. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"3:45 came./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"And everybody's phones went off at the same time. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""ATTENTION. ATTENTION. This is the Emergency Broadcast System. Take shelter immediately. Take shelter immediately. This is not a drill."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanHe meant it. That orange bastard meant it. Some of us made it to the fallout shelter. Others? Gone. Everything we had built? Gone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanPetty politics at its finest?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanYou bet./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanOn the other hand, however, there was a little meltdown going on in the heart of the White House. Thankfully, my inside sources were letting me know everything that was going on. The first video the source sent me was of the President talking very sternly to his cabinet staff. Something along the lines of "these bastards at the Post are trying to get my ass impeached. What in the actual fuck do they think they're doing?" As soon as I showed that people to the fine folks in the newsroom, we all laughed hysterically. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"As journalists, we know it's our job to report the facts and find the truth in every situation, no matter how insane the cat and mouse chase. They train us on that in college. They don't train us on how to deal with crazy Presidents, however./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Immediately after the Twitter tirade was made available to us, we sure as hell posted it on our social media outlets, because after all, we're reporting the news. However, the tirades just kept coming. We had all seen the President mad before, that of course, was nothing new. Usually though, these tirades were short, mini bursts of anger. The source just kept sending us rants galore. Hell, you could actually see steam coming out of the guy's ears. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"As we got more tirades sent to us, we started to notice a little something. He started talking nukes. Nuclear guns, nuclear weapons, fallout shelters, and what not just seemed to jumble in with his ranting and raving. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"We were all confused with what any of that meant. "I'm going to blow up this place if this fake news keeps spreading." And just like a little toddler, he kept shouting "fake news, fake news!" until the cows come home. For all of us journalists though, we were just used to those cries. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"By mid-afternoon, the mood was still very lackadaisical in the newsroom. While busy, everybody was still riding on an all time high, something not usually seen in a newsroom after a Presidential scandal had been revealed. However, by 3:30, some nerves were starting to get rattled after a tweet by the "dunce in chief."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"We're gonna Make America Great Again at 3:45pm Eastern. You can thank the Washington Post and their FAKE NEWS!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanAnd we all laughed, albeit very nervously. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"3:45 came./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"And everybody's phones went off at the same time. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""ATTENTION. ATTENTION. This is the Emergency Broadcast System. Take shelter immediately. Take shelter immediately. This is not a drill."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanHe meant it. That orange bastard meant it. Some of us made it to the fallout shelter. Others? Gone. Everything we had built? Gone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanPetty politics at its finest?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanYou bet./span/p
