Fake News Blog

               The piece of “fake news” I selected is when President Trump tweeted that an ‘extremely credible source’ had called his office telling him that (President at the time) Barack Obama’s birth certificate was a fraud. Trump tweeted this in August of 2012 but had been raising questions of Obama’s birth certificate since March, 2011. He publically announced this falsely, made up accusation to TV stations like ABC’s The View and The Today Show. This “fake news” is significant because Barack Obama was our President at the time of these false rumors. He was representing our country and to say he isn’t a U.S citizen and to spread false rumors that his birth certificate is fake reflects on us as a country. It makes us look less credible as a country. President Obama put the false accusations of his birth certificate to rest in 2008, when he released a short- form birth certificate from the Hawaii Department of Health. Trump went on to say how an ‘extremely credible source’ called his office and told him the birth certificate was a fraud. Links to blog post from WND.com and FreedomOutpost.com were also posted, promoting the fake news. This specific fake news topic definitely resonates differently with different audiences. Some Republicans may stick up for Trump, backing up his false statement, while some Democrats may call out his outrageous comments. The fake news that is published about Donald Trump probably interest Democrats more than Republicans and vice versa. Republicans may take the side of their political figure, even if they don’t necessarily agree with them. Democrats may be interested in this news because it makes the political figure that they dislike or don’t agree with look bad for not being a credible source. For this reason, I think it is more effective towards the left side. Because of his false statement on twitter, Trump’s tweet got a tremendous amount of attention from twitter viewers. It soon made headlines on national news channels. Some news station’s, like FOX News, who is known to take the views of Republicans, questioned how legit Mr. Obama’s birth certificate was. Other news station’s, like CNN, who is known to take the views of Democrates, were appalled by Mr. Trump’s tweet and thought it was actually quite laughable.