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  • 2020-03-10 (xsd:date)
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  • AOC Did Not Say the ‘Only Reason Trump is Keeping His Promises is... (en)
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  • AOC Did Not Say the ‘Only Reason Trump is Keeping His Promises is to Infuence the Outcome’ of the 2020 Election Claim Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) said the only reason Trump is keeping his campaign promises is to influence the outcome of the next election, or that he is only keeping his campaign promises because he is trying to get re-elected in 2020. Rating Not True Like this fact check? Reporting In late January 2020, memes circulated on Twitter claiming that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) said that the nly reason President Trump is keeping his campaign promises is to influence the outcome of the 2020 election: https://twitter.com/USMCSDI/status/1221503366905450497 The only reason Trump is keeping his campaign promises is to influence the outcome of the election. ~ AOC So AOC..please preach some more for us here.. 😂😂 — J. C. 🇺🇸 (@therealarmyvet) January 30, 2020 Spreading as a real quote, the inherent humor was fairly obvious with a joke built in to the commentary. Had Ocasio-Cortez truly said some variation of the remark, she would have been unwittingly praising President Trump as keeping his campaign promises, something characterized in that quote as a dirty trick to get re-elected in 2020. Further implied was that Ocasio-Cortez was somehow unaware that the purpose of campaign promises is to fulfill them, thus earning re-election through a strong track record of in-office accomplishments. We found no iterations of the quote or variations of it prior to January 26 2020, when it began spreading in text form on Twitter. Nearly always accompanied by laughing emoji symbols, the quote was shared verbatim by users — often alongside commentary such as yes, she really did say that, or she’s really that stupid, or some variation thereof: https://twitter.com/JSOC_DF2/status/1222633567919988737 Did @AOC really say Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die The only reason Trump is keeping his campaign promises is to influence the outcome of the next election. ?????? — American Conservative (@JimSTruthBTold) January 29, 2020 By early February, iterations of the claim migrated to Facebook. Within a week, image memes of the same or similar quotes began spreading there: A late January 2020 Facebook post utilized the first version of the quote (‘The only reason Trump is keeping his election promises is to influence the next election’ AOC): By February 22 2020, the verbiage changed (to Trump is only keeping his campaign promises in order to get re-elected – AOC), but the posts were visually similar: On February 6 2020, iFunny indexed the Spock version of the meme. And on March 5 2020, @MAFAGIRL4LYF shared a slightly different iteration. An appended image looked as if it was originally posted on Facebook or Snapchat, but we were unable to locate any posts with similar wording. https://twitter.com/MAGAGIRL4LYF/status/1235689299263266816 Atop an image of Ocasio-Cortez, text at the top read More brilliance from AOC. Underneath that, text peppered with emojis read: AOC..lol Here is my new favorite gem of hers.... Trump is only keeping his campaign promises because he is trying to get re-elected. Yes boys and girls.. She actually said that. As we have pointed out before, there appears to often be an inverse correlation between the veracity of any meme-based claim and its comorbidity with the phrases yes, [person] really said this, or yes, this is real, or most commonly, you just can’t make this shit up. Particularly with the latter, memes using said wording seemed more often than not to be in fact featuring shit that someone really did just make up. Predictably, all searches of any instance where Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Trump is only keeping his campaign promises because he is trying to get re-elected [in 2020] or the only reason Trump is keeping his election promises is to influence the next election led solely to memes. Had Ocasi0-Cortez truly made any public statement resembling these memes, there would not only be a record of such statements; it would also be extremely popular on certain blogs and websites. Not only is its absence near proof-positive the quotes were fabricated, it existed in no other form than in tweets and Facebook posts mocking the purported quote. Posted in Disinformation , Fact Checks Tagged alexandria ocasio-cortez , AOC , AOC memes , bad faith arguments , basically an outright lie , fake quotes , not a fun fact , quote memes , Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (en)
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