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Never before has the aphorism that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth even puts on its pants been more accurate than it is in 2017. On 30 October, the Pilipino Star Ngayon published a column containing a couplet supposedly spoken by President Donald Trump: Narco, which is short for narcotics or the Spanish word narcotraficante (literally meaning narco-trafficker) is often used as a term for a career drug smuggler. This quote — which is not genuine — was republished by a variety of outlets. It was repeated in the Philippine Star, one of the country's daily newspapers, featured in an article by the Manila Standard, and exaggerated in a post by the popular Facebook page Thinking Pinoy to make it seem as though Trump had called Trillanes a drug lord: This quote should have been met with skepticism by newspaper editors. For one thing, it clearly originated in a tabloid article that was reporting secondhand what reporters had allegedly heard, but with no proof or citation. The original article also failed to tie this quote to any specific source. Trillanes noted these journalistic flaws in a statement published to Facebook: After the authenticity of this quote was called into question, the Philippine Star sought out transcripts from Trump's press engagements to see if they could verify the alleged statement; they found no record of Trump calling Trillanes a little narco. Pilipino Star Ngayon editor-in-chief Al Pedroche, who wrote the original column, issued an apology:
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