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On 26 June 2018, a rumor started in a sourceless tweet asserting that Harley Davidson's chief executive officer, Matthew Levatich, called President Donald Trump a moron: The tweet appeared to reference remarks made by President Donald Trump about Harley-Davidson's decision to move some manufacturing outside the United States: Versions of the claim circulated on Facebook, too, again without a source or link: In some versions, users claimed Levatich used the word moron in a statement. No such statement exists. Not unlike a rumor claiming that Michelle Obama orchestrated Roseanne Barr's firing from her ABC sitcom, the rumor seemingly stemmed from a single tweet with no additional information and it was not substantiated. We contacted Harley-Davidson to ask for more details. A media representative affirmed the claim was untrue:
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