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In August 2017, months after the Pizzagate conspiracy theory was roundly disproved, a piece of video appeared that purportedly shows featuring Donald Trump talking to television anchor Piers Morgan in 2011 about the Anthony Weiner scandal. This time, however, it was repackaged as proof that the future president was one of the first to know about the debunked conspiracy theory that Washington, D.C.'s elite run a pedophilia ring out of a popular pizzeria's basement. For example, one YouTube user preceded the video by the following narration: The YouTuber who posted the augmented video said that he couldn't find anything else from 2011 that was called or related to anything named Pizzagate, implying that Trump had perhaps predicted the manufactured 2016 controversy; however, we found several mentions of a 2011 Pizzagate moniker that had nothing to do with pedophile rings. This Pizzagate came from a June 2011 lunch meeting between Trump and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. The two discussed various political matters, but much of the media was focused on a different detail: Trump ate his pizza with a fork. The revelation sparked a wave of opinion pieces about the proper way to eat pizza: Trump's 2011 interview with CNN aired amidst this tempest:
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