Faux Trump Publish Reads, 'Your Life Is a Complete Mess! You are Broke, Cannot Even Afford Cookies'

In September 2024, a screenshot of a purported put up by former U.S. President Donald Trump circulated on-line, starting with the phrase, “Your life is a complete mess! You are broke, cannot even afford cookies.”

The alleged put up — which seemed like a message on Trump’s social media platform, Reality Social — learn in all uppercase letters:

YOUR LIFE IS A TOTAL MESS! YOU’RE BROKE, CAN’T EVEN AFFORD COOKIES! IMMIGRANTS ARE TAKING AND EATING YOUR PETS, FOLKS! WOMEN ARE MISERABLE-NOT SEXY, NOT SAFE! EVERYTHING YOU LOVE IS GONE, COMPLETELY DESTROYED! EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE! YOU BETTER ELECT ME SO I CAN FIX IT, AND I WILL-BIG TIME! | KNOW I SAID THIS IN 2016, BUT THIS TIME I REALLY MEAN IT! LET’S MAKE AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!

Amongst social media customers who shared the screenshot was writer John Pavlovitz. Referencing the 2024 presidential election, he wrote (archived) on Fb with the picture, “Good human beings will not select this.” Other users on Threads and X additionally appeared to interpret the screenshot as documentation of an genuine put up by Trump.

Nonetheless, regardless that a lot of Trump’s posts on Reality Social are written in all uppercase letters with related syntax, the alleged message was not an actual put up by the previous president. As Seana Davis with Logically Facts reported, the screenshot was created by an X account with a bio that describes its content material as containing parody and satire.

The Origins of the Faux Trump ‘Cookies’ Publish

On Sept. 21, 2024, X person Agent Self FBI (@AgentSelf99B) first posted (archived) the faux Trump put up with a small “satire” label within the bottom-right nook of the picture. The person’s bio reads, “Deep State Director and FBI: (generally I put up parody and satire) you are accountable for figuring out what actuality is, and what it is not. Not me! NOT A FED.”

X person Liam Nissan (@theliamnissan) — whose bio additionally mentions parody — reposted the screenshot. Nonetheless, in that repost, the small “satire” label was lacking after somebody had seemingly cropped it out.

@theliamnissan later deleted the put up after a distinct person replied (archived), “Suppose it is a parody. It isn’t on his web page,” in reference to Trump’s precise posts on Reality Social. Then, underneath that reply, @AgentSelf99B responded (archived), “I made it. Somebody cropped out the satire mark I made.”

One person posted (archived), “It is so unhappy that this appears to be like very plausible for a Trump put up.” One other particular person added, “The scary factor is that it is plausible as one thing he would ship.” Others posted similar remarks concerning the screenshot’s believability.

We’ve got beforehand fact-checked different purported social media posts by Trump — messages with ranging ranges of authenticity. For instance, Trump’s Reality Social account truly displayed a put up studying, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” One other fact-check reported on the faux nature of a screenshot claiming Trump stated he as soon as marched with Martin Luther King Jr.

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