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On July 29, 2019, a tweet ostensibly quoting U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as asserting that former President Barack Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden, had been cowering in fear on Air Force 1 in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S., while Donald Trump was on the ground with first responders searching for survivors and pulling people to safety, achieved viral status: This tweet prompted outraged responses from people who took it at face value, most of them vociferously pointing out that George W. Bush was president at the time of the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and Obama was not elected to that office until more than seven years later: But the tweet was just a spoof mocking President Trump and his Republican supporters by playing on a controversial comment Trump had made the previous day about his presence among first responders who were searching for survivors in Lower Manhattan immediately after the 9/11 attacks: I was down there also, but I'm not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you. The purported quote from Rep. Jim Jordan was a fabricated one created by Dan Lyons, a journalist and writer for the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. Lyons told Newsweek that You wouldn't be surprised if those guys said something that ridiculous. I kind of thought people would know it's a joke, but I guess I should stamp it. That's always the risk with satire. Lyons later tweeted about the virality his previous tweet had achieved:
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