‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’

Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got elected. He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didn’t care because they’d already accepted it. It’s real scary. I’ve never seen anything like it.

My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist.

Just ’cause his supporters were under the belief that people were getting paid to protest at their rallies, and that’s just insane. I’ve gone to Trump protests — trust me, no one needs to get paid to protest Trump. I just wanted to make fun of that insane belief, but it took off. They actually believed it.


I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now he’s in the White House. Looking back, instead of hurting the campaign, I think I helped it. And that feels [bad].

Scarlet O'Hara wrote:will be interesting to see how the technical giants deal with it...

silvermani wrote:He says whatever it takes to get voted. He doesn't let facts get in the way nor does he care about his claims being proven false

Idéfix wrote:

silvermani wrote:He says whatever it takes to get voted. He doesn't let facts get in the way nor does he care about his claims being proven false

Yeah, he said father instead of grandfather once. Major scandal! He's a LIAR. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/service.asp

Meanwhile, we have a president-elect who made about 35 false statements a DAY during the campaign.

But they're all the same, equally bad, or Obama is worse. False equivalence is your best friend.

silvermani wrote:

Idéfix wrote:

silvermani wrote:He says whatever it takes to get voted. He doesn't let facts get in the way nor does he care about his claims being proven false

Yeah, he said father instead of grandfather once. Major scandal! He's a LIAR. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/service.asp

Meanwhile, we have a president-elect who made about 35 false statements a DAY during the campaign.

But they're all the same, equally bad, or Obama is worse. False equivalence is your best friend.

This shows that Obummer is an opportunistic, calculated liar. You can mistake the date or place but how can you say "father" instead of "grandfather"? You can, if you have blind followers ready to cover up for you, that's how.