Day 783: Conspiracy theorist Trump theorizes conspiracy about Melania photos; blames media for different conspiracy theory
He also accidentally admitted that photos look odd.
Donald Trump loves conspiracy theories. He led the racist birther movement, alleging against all sorts of evidence that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. (He was.) Trump has floated the idea that vaccines cause autism. (They don’t.) He said while campaigning that Ted Cruz’s father was part a plan to assassinate John F. Kennedy. (He wasn’t.)
So it’s particularly ironic that Trump — while alleging a conspiracy theory — is accusing the media of a conspiracy theory.
Trump is referencing photos, such as the one above and to the left.
He is theorizing conspiratorially — again, with no evidence — that the photos were digitally altered by the media to make it appear as though Melania had a body double standing in for her during Trump’s visit to Alabama this past weekend.
On top of that, he’s blaming the media for their own conspiracy theory: using the photos to drive some sort of narrative, though he never explains what. Most major news networks and newspapers paid the images little to no attention. The ones that did mention the story noted some of the jokes and memes on social media, labeling the #FakeMelania topic a conspiracy theory.
The most prominent person to weigh in on the topic in a serious manner turns out to now be Trump, since he claimed the images were digitally altered. If anything, his accusation is a tacit admission that the photos of Melania do look a bit off.
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