The election of Donald Trump has made everyone dumb. The latest iteration of Things That Are Not True On The Internet (But People Are Sharing It Anyway Because They Want to Believe It Because the Trump Administration Is Very Bad) comes via film producer John Cohen, who tweeted the following Thursday morning:
“It looks like [White House press secretary] Sean Spicer accidentally put on two different colored shoes today and is now awkwardly trying to hide it,”
Everything about this is factually inaccurate.
First, the picture is months old. A larger version of the original picture shows Spicer flanking Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney during an outdoors press conference. There was no such press conference Thursday morning. Also, in the original photo, Price and Mulvaney are seen wearing heavy coats. It’s 55 degrees today in the nation’s capital.
Secondly, Spicer isn’t wearing two different shoes. He’s wearing a boot because he has a bum ankle.
Cohen quietly deleted his stupid tweet Thursday afternoon, but not before it was shared by more than 4,000 social media users, including entertainers, reporters and political activists.
One of the worst things about the election of Trump is that it has made thousands of people into idiots. Either that or Americans were already dangerously, willfully gullible, and the election has merely flushed them out.
At any rate, let’s try to change this. Be the change you wish to see in the world. Don’t share stupid stuff on the Internet.
