President Donald Trump seems to have jumped the gun on a glowing quote that former President Ronald Reagan never said about him, according to PolitiFact.
“Cute!” Trump quote-tweeted in response to a tweet originally posted in February 2017 of Trump and Reagan shaking hands. The account in question appears to have been suspended as of late Monday morning.
Cute! https://t.co/ylJfs6hh9g
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 8, 2019
A repost of the image with the false Reagan quote began circulating on Facebook last February, PolitiFact reported.
One great man recognizes another great man. Reagans prophecy came true.
Posted by Tony DeFrancisco on Monday, February 4, 2019
According to PolitiFact, the image was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.
Joanne Drake, chief administrative officer of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, told PolitiFact that despite the Nov. 1987 photo’s authenticity, Reagan “did not ever say that about Donald Trump.”
Seems the account that Trump retweeted has been suspended.
Though, it’s still on Trump’s Twitter feed in all it’s unavailable glory…
But Ronnie shoulda, woulda, coulda cuz saints an’ the divinely chosen are always backing each other up. Amirite?
Why do you report on this kind of story? Like the tweet that shows Trump “running” for president for eternity, this is the kind of thing he (and other Conservatives) tweet out just to get a reaction from the Left. Sure, it’s not appropriate for the President of the United States, but surely there are more important things to flag in your news feed.
But in real news, Florida Man™ has been exceptionally busy today:
“With God as my witness, when I felt that young man’s clammy hand, an image of Lucifer passed through my mind, so real as to make me nauseous. I immediately called on my Secret Service detail to collect holy water from all the nearby Manhattan churches so I could bathe in it, and exorcize his malign influence from my aging body.”