Ivanka Trump mocked after misquoting Albert Einstein on Twitter

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Source: The Independent

First daughter Ivanka Trump has been mocked on social media after a tweet she wrote four years ago misquoting Albert Einstein resurfaced over the weekend.

The tweet, written in June 2013, attributed the quote “If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts” to the famed physicist.

The only problem? Einstein never actually said that.

Twitter users picked up on the misquote, with some poking fun at the irony of such a mistake, while others questioned whether Ms Trump might actually be mocking the notion of changing facts herself.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ivanka-trump-albert-einstein-donald-trump-us-twitter-social-media-a7856431.html

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Here's the tweet in question....

Link to tweet

Yo, Ivanka. That might work in the Faux Spews Bizarro World, but not in reality. Regardless of what the orange idiot says.

[dalton99a]

1. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Einstein did say that

[OnlinePoker]

9. Maybe or maybe not.

The author who first attributed it, Frederick S Perls, never originally said it that way, nor did he say it was Einstein, just "a great astronomer". He kept changing the quote as time went along.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/

I think it's a matter of people writing something clever and then wanting to give it an air of authenticity by linking it with a famous name, be it Einstein or Twain.

[Towlie]

20. ... or Andy Rooney.

[7962]

28. Exactly. Which is why I dont get so worked up over stuff like this. Happens all the time.

I've seen learned people mistakingly attribute quotes all the time. The internet doesnt help matters
But at this point if any Trump gets a pimple its going to get its own headline!

[George II]

2. Wait until she says that Einstein "architected his theory of relativity"!!!!!

[karynnj]

3. Maybe she should quit quoting without checking - she credited Emma Watson with Hillel's famous

words -- suggesting her instruction when converting to Judaism was not all that comprehensive.

http://forward.com/schmooze/349609/ivanka-trump-quotes-hillel-the-elder-credits-emma-watson-by-mistake/

[niyad]

5. vannie, dahhhhhhling, we know you have the iq of lint, so there is no need to keep reminding us.

(complicit, anyone???)

[Hekate]

16. Lint?

[niyad]

18. I know, that is probably an insult to lint!

from a line in a mystery read many years ago, "if his iq were three points higher, he would be lint"

[littlemissmartypants]

23. DUzy. ♡ nt

[dchill]

39. Leave lint alone!

[SchrodingersCatbox]

40. Lint Anti-Defamation League on line 1... nt

[niyad]

41. tell them I am out to lunch--permanently!!

[JenniferJuniper]

6. As if AE would say something so stupid...

we need to be rid of this bunch of criminal morons asap.

[FakeNoose]

7. Leave poor Albert Einstein out of this

[keithbvadu2]

30. Doggone! Now we have to mistrust the quote.

[left-of-center2012]

8. She expects bigger and better from Albert Einstein in the future

[Achilleaze]

10. "Everybody party down now with festive Champagne Popsicles." I. Vanka (R)

"The Hell with facts and truth and honesty and all that shit. We are republicans. Let's all go buy some new designer handbags and shoes, and suck up some more yumilicious Champagne Popsicles to honor the men and women who actually served America, unlike my Five-Time Draft-Dodgin Daddy. Ha ha." - I. Vanka

[Butterflylady]

11. Once again

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[Angry Dragon]

17. apples on the ground turn rotten in time ............ King of Light

[barbtries]

12. it's a fun thread

"I never said that shit." Albert Einstein

[hatrack]

13. "You had me at 'hello'" - Genghis Khan

"Ooh I want to dance with somebody
Ooh I want to feel the heat with somebody" - Mother Teresa

[barbtries]

14. lol

like i said.

[lark]

15. That crowd just loves their alt-facts, don't they?

[Towlie]

19. You can't prove that someone never said something.

Except in unusual cases, the most you can do is state that there's no evidence that someone said something. Any claim that a person did say something at some unspecified time or in unspecified circumstances during their lifetime is, by it's very nature, non-falsifiable.

[keithbvadu2]

31. Socrates talked about the youth not respecting their elders - or so the lore goes.

Socrates talked about the youth not respecting their elders - or so the lore goes.

I tried to track it down and there is no actual proof that he said it.

And he said it during his lifetime, or decades before he was born or decades after he died.

Quotes get a little flexible as time goes on.

[ananda]

21. Einstein DID say ..

.. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking
we used when creating them.

.. Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot
be trusted with important matters.

and

.. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

[Lionel Mandrake]

22. Here's another statement falsely attributed to Einstein:

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

What Einstein actually said (in 1933) is the following:

"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience."

The true and false quotations express approximately the same idea.

[Sanity Claws]

27. No they don't

I have no idea of how one could say that they express approximately the same idea.

[Lionel Mandrake]

32. Well yeah, they kinda do,

although I admit the false quote is a little too simple, just like a bad theory.

[Towlie]

34. Even if he made that verbose statement, that doesn't prove he didn't also say the shorter version.

[Lionel Mandrake]

36. True,

but there is no evidence that Einstein made the shorter statement. He probably didn't do so in public, since practically everything he said in public after 1919 is documented somewhere.

[Towlie]

37. Right! That's exactly the point I made above

in this post.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Dolt 45 says, he himself, said it. eom

[Crowman2009]

25. Last time I checked, Einstein didn't have theories about getting away with fraud & high treason.

[Sanity Claws]

26. My goodness. She is ignorant

If she could think that Einstein would say that, it is obvious that she knows nothing about him.

[magicarpet]

29. Sounds like the way her dad thinks and also something he would say...

.... maybe Trump actually did say this and maybe often. But to give this idea and statement legitimacy and credence Vanka attributed it to Albert Einstein.

As usual with any Trump ~™Vanka failed to realize the absurdity of claiming Einstein said it because the statement is so incoherent, absurd, demonstrably incorrect. But as with any Trump - style, form and fashion supersedes substance or factually correct knowledge.

Isn't that a surprise

<<<<<??<<<<<

Ivanka says,

"Now where is my hair spray" ?
Different gender ~ but same airhead as her brothers and dad - Oy - Oy - Oy.

[erpowers]

33. Does Not Seem Like Something a Mathematician Would Say

That does not seem like a quote that would come from a Mathematician. It seems like it would have been the opposite if it was said by Albert Einstein, or anyone in the Math or Science field. I do believe Math and Science are based on facts. You have to change your theory if the facts do not fit your theory. I do not know why she would think a Scientist or Mathematician would say one should change the facts if they do not fit the theory. If you change your facts to fit your theory you just end up with a incorrect theory.

[Towlie]

35. Agreed. Of course Einstein would never have seriously said that!

No scientist would say that unless it was meant as sarcasm.

[xor]

38. I am more disturbed that she thinks the sentiment of that quote is a good one to restate

regardless of who she thinks said it.