President Trump shot down a conspiracy theory about his wife, accusing the “deranged” media of photoshopping images of first lady Melania Trump to make it appear that it was not actually her by his side during a visit to Alabama last week.
“The Fake News photoshopped pictures of Melania, then propelled conspiracy theories that it’s actually not her by my side in Alabama and other places. They are only getting more deranged with time!” Trump wrote in a tweet Tuesday.
The Fake News photoshopped pictures of Melania, then propelled conspiracy theories that it’s actually not her by my side in Alabama and other places. They are only getting more deranged with time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2019
Twitter users over the weekend fueled a conspiracy theory that a body double occasionally replaces the first lady at public events after she and the president visited survivors of a deadly tornado in Alabama on Friday. The unfounded claim began in 2017.
The conspiracy was discussed on ABC’s “The View” on Monday. Co-host Joy Behar said one of the photos of the visit “doesn’t look like” the first lady.
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“I wasn’t going to go along with this, but that one in that picture does not look like her. It’s a different shaped face,” Behar said.
The first lady’s communications director, Stephanie Grisham, called Behar’s comments “shameful.”
.@flotus & @potus traveled to Alabama to pay their respects & comfort victims of the tornado devastation. In typical fashion, @theview chooses to laugh in the face of tragedy. Shameful. https://t.co/KzG2c4Th4a
— Stephanie Grisham (@StephGrisham45) March 11, 2019
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