An official Twitter account for Donald Trump’s reelection campaign engineered a hilarious self-own while attempting to defend the president Saturday. The “Official Trump War Room” account angrily declared “fake news” that Trump had called Meghan Markle “nasty” — while posting a clip of him calling Meghan Markle nasty.
Trump made the comment in an interview in the Oval Office Friday with the British tabloid The Sun ahead of his state visit to London on Monday. When the reporter pointed out that the now-Duchess of Sussex had vowed in 2016 to move to Canada if Trump were elected, Trump responded: “I didn’t know she was nasty.” As the war room account tweeted: “Here is what he actually said. Listen for yourself!”
Sure enough, that’s exactly what he said. Followers on Twitter — including lots of journalists — were amused.
Trump, incidentally, also said he is hugely popular in the U.K., supports controversial right-winger Boris Johnson to replace outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May (whom Trump said bungled Brexit) and insisted “we have among the cleanest climate in the world.”
Fake News CNN is at it again, falsely claiming President Trump called Meghan Markle “nasty.” Here is what he actually said. Listen for yourself! pic.twitter.com/kLuPXBLMhf
— Official Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 1, 2019
TFW when the quote you’re denying is in the audio you’re tweeting. https://t.co/iFu4IqaRys
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 1, 2019
“No I didn’t know that she was nasty,” POTUS says about Meghan Markle in the clip after the interviewer told him that in 2016 she’d threatened to leave the US if he was elected. https://t.co/ufduNAppCr
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 1, 2019
He actually calls her “nasty” in this audio. That is the exact word he uses. Who is running that war room? George Orwell? https://t.co/6X5Dl979oI
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) June 1, 2019
Today, June 1, 2019—a date which will live in infamy—the @TrumpWarRoom was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the @TrumpWarRoom.
— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) June 1, 2019
Um he said “I didn’t know she was nasty.” That is calling someone nasty.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 1, 2019
“I didn’t know that she was nasty.” There. Saving others the time and agony of hearing Trump’s God-awful voice.
— Patti Lou (@50inaug) June 1, 2019
He literally says it in your recording. You even subtitled it. pic.twitter.com/gYyi3HB7nP
— Craig Beilinson (@cbeilinson) June 1, 2019
Are you deaf AND blind???
— Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess) June 1, 2019
Hard to imagine a more explicit example of gaslighting than this.
Trump’s “war room” tweets audio of Trump saying Markle was nasty, with subtitles showing he said she was nasty, while denying that he said she was nasty.
For the love of god. pic.twitter.com/xq1kIhF3Tb
— Avi Bueno (@Avi_Bueno) June 1, 2019
Why does a draft dodger need a ‘War Room.’
— Brian Regal, PhD (@tarbosaur) June 1, 2019
Here’s another tape to check out:
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