“I Mean Yes He’s Stupid but You Don’t *Accidentally Press ‘Retweet’ Twice on Something”
For a few minutes Tuesday morning Twitter users were stunned to see President Donald Trump’s retweet of a cartoonish meme depicting a “Trump train” plowing through a CNN reporter. The retweet was quickly deleted, but it was too late.
Coming just days after a real-life car driven by a white supremacist plowed though a crowd of people protesting white supremacism, leaving one woman dead and 19 others injured, the similarity did not go unnoticed.
Neither unnoticed was the similarity to a popular and vile video Trump had retweeted this summer, showing him beating up “CNN,” which was actually WWE’s Vince McMahon, whose head was digitally altered to look like the CNN logo.
The White House Tuesday morning told various reporters the retweet was “inadvertently posted and as soon it was noticed it was immediately deleted.”
But people familiar with Twitter, namely Twitter users, aren’t buying it.
The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, who has authored many articles detailing Trump’s disastrous presidency, posted this tweet in response:
She was not the only one.
A Politico news editor:
Mediaite editor:
Others:
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Tuesday morning said on-air, “You’re the White House. Tighten up your game.”
Meanwhile, ThinkProgress notes that the tweet of the “Trump train” that Trump retweeted came from an account that “has repeatedly posted racist content, including anti-Semitic propaganda from David Duke’s website,” has “identified with the ‘white pride’ movement,” “has also amplified the racist birther conspiracy theory,” and so much more.
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