The original video comes from an account called Carpe Donktum. Trump has been criticised in the past for tweeting and retweeting conspiracy theories. Ambiguity, trolling used to defend Trump tweetĭefenders of Trump’s latest tweet say that he shared it ironically, despite the president providing no context or text with the video tweet. A few days later, Twitter flagged another tweet for glorifying violence. In May, a post by Donald Trump on Twitter was flagged for being misleading regarding mail-in ballots. The latest flag follows a turnaround by some social media companies with regard to Trump’s accounts. Rather than a retweet, the president directly uploaded the video. However, he uploaded a campaign video two hours after the fake video. The president hasn’t responded to the fact check. If you click on it, Twitter takes you to a round-up of news stories that debunk the edited video.Īt the time of writing, the video had been up 12 hours. Twitter flagged the tweet with a manipulated video warning. Multiple outlets have debunked the video. It adds “Only you can stop the fake news dumpster fires”.įrom the typo in the headline to the bold font that falls outside of CNN’s chyron style, the video shows multiple signs of clumsy manipulation. It ends with text saying that “America is not the problem, fake news is”. The video then ‘fact-checks’ the CNN headline footage by showing the boys in the video actually playing. The next headline says “Racist baby probably a Trump voter”.
The latest tweet by Trump contains a manipulated video that claims to include footage from CNN with the headline “terrified todler runs from racist baby”.