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(16,855 posts)Quayblue
(1,045 posts)Docreed2003
(16,855 posts)Laf.La.Dem.
(2,943 posts)Vinca
(50,249 posts)Mariana
(14,854 posts)The ones that read that will fervently believe Obama was president during Katrina, and that he was golfing. Any attempt to remind them that Shrubbie was prez will get you an eye roll and a "Yeah, right."
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)I read that t-rump was actually congratulating himself.
yuiyoshida
(41,829 posts)Washington crossing the Delaware.
padah513
(2,498 posts)Senator Obama wasn't president.
ExciteBike66
(2,304 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,157 posts):/
ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)Then flying over LA shitting up Air Force 1. Little Boots aka The Decider was Prezel Duncing then, looks like the tRump bots don't keep calendars or remember history.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,157 posts)....with his "What a crowd! What a turnout!" thing, which arguably was the most photogenic spontaneous moment for Dubya in all his eight years as president (nevertheemind that his promise to get Bin Laden was empty and hollow).
Of course, that was after an intentional act of violence and long after the act had ended. Here, it's during a natural disaster and while the disaster is still very much unfolding.
And someone might want to tell him that invoking George W. Bush during a hurricane response probably won't help his image all that much.
Retrograde
(10,132 posts)He was probably golfing when the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor!
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Bots are very easy to spot -- these are clearly bots (likely Russian-generated)
mcar
(42,287 posts)spanone
(135,803 posts)lpbk2713
(42,750 posts)and it soon becomes accepted as the truth.
By stupid people first.
HAB911
(8,873 posts)False news stories, especially about politics, have been circulating online for some time now, with the 2016 election acting as a lightning rod for them. There have also been plenty of hoaxes in the wake of Hurricane Harveys disastrous impacts on Texasnotably fooling Fox News into running a fake picture of a shark in flood watersand those two phenomena finally combined for something truly absurd.
In what I have to believe started as propaganda by Twitter bots, a line began circulating that accused President Obama of golfing during Hurricane Katrina rather than doing anything about it:
https://www.themarysue.com/trump-obama-katrina-propaganda/