September 17, 2020
Trump Retweets ‘Manipulated Media’ of Joe Biden Playing NWA’s ‘F*** tha Police’
President Donald Trump, the creator of the term “fake news” has been making some of his own. The president retweeted a fake video, formally known as manipulated media, on Wednesday morning featuring his rival, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, grooving to the sounds of the NWA song “F— tha Police.”
This is Trump’s latest act of retweeting a fake or doctored image from his Twitter account. Twitter was quick to flag the content as “manipulated media.”
What is this all about? https://t.co/AAmBGgHhyR
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2020
The below Tweet is the original video that is not doctored.
After being introduced by Luis Fonsi, Joe Biden pulled out his phone and started playing Despacito ahead of his remarks kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month in Kissimmee, FL. pic.twitter.com/7R6hUZgLW1
— Sarah Mucha (@sarahmucha) September 16, 2020
Trump then retweets the same video but with a different caption.
China is drooling. They can’t believe this! https://t.co/AAmBGgHhyR
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2020
Between both Tweets, the video clip has been retweeted almost 100,000 times from Trump’s Twitter account.
Some Twitter users shared their disgust with the president for doing so.
Who ELSE believes that @TwitterSupport @jack should PERMANENTLY SUSPEND the Twitter accounts of @realDonaldTrump @POTUS due to his VIOLATION of Twitter Rules by posting FALSE & MISLEADING, as well as MANIPULATED Videos?? ✋✋✋
If it were ANY of US, we would’ve been SUSPENDED
— The Resistor Sister ♥️🇺🇸🦅🙏🏻 (@the_resistor) September 16, 2020
It’s all about MANIPULATED VIDEO. It should be worth a law suit that the official government account was used to spread manipulated videos of their political rivals. Your official accounts represent the people. Try acting like it, for ONCE! Good God, find some dignity. Somewhere
— Calli Quarentina Capone (@CalliCapone) September 16, 2020
@TwitterSupport THIS TWEET IS MANIPULATED AND INVOLVES A MISREPRESENTATION OF A CANDIDATE IN OUR ELECTIONS. REMOVE IT
— Mother Wit‼️Trump is a National Security Risk‼️ (@MotherWitAdv) September 16, 2020
This is Manipulated media. This never happened and Trump knows it. Trump is using fake videos to try and make Joe Biden look as if he’s against the police. This is disgusting, and Twitter needs to delete this tweet rather than just labeling it “manipulated media.”
— Mrs. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) September 16, 2020
MANIPULATED MEDIA
One thing Trump can never rely on is the truth because it always goes against him. This video has been classified as “manipulated media” because it has been intentionally altered. This is what Trump & Republicans have resorted to – distributing doctored videos.
— MURRAY 🇺🇸🗽 (@murray_nyc) September 16, 2020
You know Trump is so desperate when he starts tweeting manipulated videos.
— Chidi®️ (@ChidiNwatu) September 16, 2020