Twitter labeled a tweet by the Trump campaign featuring a three-second clip of Joe Biden’s Pennsylvania speech as “manipulated media.”
The tweet, which was posted on Monday, includes a video of the former vice president saying, “You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.” The clip leaves out the context of Biden’s full statement.
“Since they can’t run on the simple proposition of sending our children safely back to school and since they have no agenda or vision for a second term, Trump and Pence are running on this: ‘You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America,’” Biden said during a Monday speech that addressed civil unrest in the United States.
The Trump campaign later added a tweet to the thread indicating that it was meant to be a joke.
“To all the triggered journalists who can’t take a joke about their candidate, it’s not our fault Joe Biden was dumb enough to say this on camera,” the campaign said.
To all the triggered journalists who can’t take a joke about their candidate, it’s not our fault Joe Biden was dumb enough to say this on camera.
— Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) August 31, 2020
The Washington Examiner reached out to the Trump campaign for comment about the labeling but did not immediately receive a response.
This is not the first time Trump has faced labeling from Twitter. In late May, Twitter placed a fact-checking label for the first time on a tweet from Trump’s account after he wrote about mail-in voting.
The following month, the tech company flagged a video he posted that featured two toddlers, one black and one white, and that was edited to make it appear as though it were a CNN report.
“Terrified toddler runs from racist baby” and “Racist baby probably a Trump voter,” the captions read.
