Here we go again with Trump and fake videos:
President Trump shared a fake video Wednesday morning that made it seem Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was playing the NWA song “F— tha Police.” It’s the latest example of Trump retweeting a fake, doctored or manipulated image or message from his Twitter account.
It comes as the president is leaning into a law-and-order message on the campaign trail and as he trails Biden in national and swing-state polls. Twitter flagged the video as “manipulated media.”
The fake video was tweeted by a pro-Trump parody account “The United Spot.” Trump added the words “What is this all about?” over the video in which Biden is depicted as playing the NWA song from 1988 at a Hispanic Heritage Month event.
What is this all about? https://t.co/AAmBGgHhyR
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2020
China is drooling. They can’t believe this! https://t.co/AAmBGgHhyR
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2020
Trump tweeted out a video of Biden edited to make it look like he was playing NWA’s “Fuck tha Police” at an event. Twitter, again not doing anything to discourage the sharing of this stuff, responds only by adding a tiny “manipulated media” note. pic.twitter.com/98rEBx37wx
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 16, 2020
this is Trump’s second tweet on this fake video. the only notice you get is this itty bitty little flag at the bottom that its “manipulated media” that you can barely notice pic.twitter.com/CsuY4uERKo
— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) September 16, 2020