On any given day, Twitter is an absolute bowl of dumb, but today may have eclipsed all the other days after Twitter leftists – some of them with large followings – circulated what they claimed was former President Donald Trump’s 2021 Christmas card.
While it’s unclear who posted the image first, one person who did was Grant Stern, who is the executive editor of “Occupy Democrats,” which is one of the most dishonest Twitter accounts ever to exist on the platform. Now deleted tweet, here’s what Stern – a frequent critic of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, I should note – wrote about the supposed “Trump Christmas card”:
Internet can be used for all purposes. @grantstern. #BlessYourHeart pic.twitter.com/5i9LXVEx8u
— Sister Toldjah 😁 (@sistertoldjah) December 6, 2021
I mean you’d think it was obvious that it wasn’t real. For starters, Trump’s son Barron was left off. Secondly, Trump’s hands were shrunk down and looked disproportionate. Thirdly, there’s something rather odd-looking about Trump’s tuxedo, which I won’t describe in detail here but I’m sure readers will pick up on what I’m getting at. The last thing is the fact that this card is ridiculously cheesy.
But apparently, it wasn’t that obvious to the Trump-obsessed left, who proceeded to tweet so much about the card, mocking it, drawing crude pictures of the male anatomy on it, etc. It was a popular trend for some time. Twitchy reported that the original poster of the fake card deleted some tweets, while other people still have the tweets.
“News” of the “Trump Christmas card” became so widespread on social media that Reuters stepped in to fact check it:
The postcard was not released on Trump’s official website (www.donaldjtrump.com/news).
He spokesperson Liz Harrington did not tweet the message, although she frequently posts official Trump statements.twitter.com/realLizUSA). Contacted by Reuters, Harrington confirmed the image “is fake and did not come from us.”
You can also find a second Christmas card at his Save America Online Shop, http://bit.ly/3puGFZy and bit.ly/3DvIPwS.
Even notorious Democrat apologist and CNN “fact checker” Daniel Dale got in on the action to noteIt was fake.
Below, see the Trump Christmas Card in its actual form:
Numerous blue-tick accounts are spreading the fake Donald Trump Christmas card (left), that is obviously fabricated. You can purchase the real card (right) on former President Trump’s website. pic.twitter.com/TToXx93rOE
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) December 6, 2021
After deleting his tweet, Stern laughably proclaimed that he thought Twitter had a “screening process” of sorts for fake news that trended.
“True confession. Relying on Twitter trends to screen things was a mistake,” he wrote. “But it was an innocent one. I thought there was some basic screening there.”
Stern is being indicted for believing that, and Twitter’s lax monitoring of fake news trends.
Also, keep in mind that Twitter can be hacked. Allowable the fake card to trend for several hours, in contrast to last year and how they punished the New York Post and that of other Twitter users including the official Trump campaign account for tweeting out the paper’s factual reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop emails.
In any event, though Reuters doesn’t get a cookie for doing their jobs here, it’s good that somebody did it, because we know Twitter sure as hell wouldn’t have ever gotten around to it considering their history.
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