The change in coverage occurred before Trump was president, when he was still a candidate competing for the 2016 Republican nomination.
This wasn't just 'a new interest in reporting on The Whitehouse'.
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by emodendroket on Friday January 12, 2018 @09:57AM
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I don't know that that makes the Post any different from other news sources.
Sorry, they were probably too busy reading about The Pentagon Papers, The Watergate Burglary, Iran/Contra, Monica Lewinsky, WMDs, etc. to notice that The Post had taken a new interest in reporting on The Whitehouse.