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  • 2020-05-25 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Donald Trump Tweet, ‘There Are Still More People Alive Then Dead’? (en)
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  • An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows President Donald Trump praising his response to the coronavirus pandemic on Twitter, saying, I have done a tremendous job. There are still more people alive then ( sic ) dead! Verdict: False There is no record of Trump ever tweeting the statement. Fact Check: The screen grab masquerades as a tweet sent from Trump’s verified Twitter account , saying, It is unbelievable that President Obama criticized me for the coronavirus virus response. He had eight years to prepair ( sic ) the next president for a pandemic and he failed. I have done a tremendous job. There are still more people alive then dead! But there is no record of Trump ever tweeting the statement. Searching both of the president’s Twitter accounts – @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS – turned up no matches. Nor does the alleged tweet appear in ProPublica’s archive of his deleted tweets . The Daily Caller didn’t find any media outlets attributing the statement in the alleged tweet to him either. (RELATED: Did Trump Call The Coronavirus A ‘Hoax’ At His South Carolina Rally?) Trump has criticized the Obama administration for leaving him an empty national stockpile. However, multiple fact- checkers have called the claim inaccurate, noting that while its stock of N95 masks was depleted, the national stockpile was not empty. Fact-checkers have also debunked the claim that the Obama administration didn’t leave behind a pandemic playbook. This isn’t the first time social media users have shared a fabricated Trump tweet during the coronavirus pandemic. In May, the Caller debunked the false claim that Trump tweeted, Some oldies will have to die. (en)
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