The top WaPo news story of the day is a guess about what the President might be thinking about a piece of ambiguous evidence

I do appreciate Ann Althouse's attention to language. Sometimes the insistence on precision leads to a dense tangle of ideas and sometimes it leads to insight.

From WaPo's groping for bad news about Trump stumbles into the double vinc. by Ann Althouse.

She is tasking the Washington Post with bad headline writing.

This is the top headline at WaPo right now, and I don't think it's even news. At best, it's a clumsy sketch for an opinion column:

What is the headline?

Ukraine call points to a president convinced of his own invincibility.

She points out:

I say it's not news because what is it saying just happened? The call, which we heard about days ago, is just evidence, laying there. The action verb is "points," but it's not as though the thing we already knew stood up and extended an index finger directing us to the complete abstraction of Trump's assessment of his own powers. And it's not as though WaPo just learned that Trump has this particular belief about himself. It doesn't even know that he does. It's just that the call suggests that Trump has this belief. The top news story of the day, according to The Washington Post, is a guess about what a piece of evidence might mean about how things look from the inside of the President's head.