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In late November 2016, various clickbait web sites shared a story describing an incident in San Antonio, Texas, in which high school students included a fake assassination of President-elect Donald Trump in a skit they wrote as part of an assignment. The article claimed that a double standard was in play because a similar depiction of President Barack Obama wouldn't be tolerated: While it's unknown whether the hypothetical situation presented by the web site would be true if circumstances were different, the event depicted in the article did occur — though the sites that carried this story are the types that generally feature a number of a exaggerated and frightening claims (example headline: CHILLING: Obama Makes Announcement About World Order). According to the San Antonio Express-News, the skit was performed by two 10th grade boys as part of a class assignment at Marshall High School: On 18 November 2016, the Northside Independent School District superintendent, Brian T. Woods, released a statement addressing the incident. He said the students changed their script after submitting it: The Express-News reports that two parents were particularly upset by the skit, and the story was shared across the blogosphere by web sites claiming the boys should have received harsher punishment — though the district didn't reveal what their punishment was.
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