
On Thursday, President Donald Trump tweeted a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appearing to stutter and slur her words as if drunk or confused — a video that was already slapped down as fake by Fox News earlier in the day:
“PELOSI STAMMERS THROUGH NEWS CONFERENCE” https://t.co/1OyCyqRTuk— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1558660173.0
The post was the latest salvo in the president's escalating fight with Pelosi as she advances House investigations and impugns his mental acuity.
Trump's promotion of the fake video sparked outrage on Twitter:
Even FOX debunked the videos of Nancy Pelosi slurring, yet Trump retweets anyway, knowing they're not real. We don'… https://t.co/tWIJQ9WTrW— Lynn Ehrlicher (@Lynn Ehrlicher) 1558665230.0
@realDonaldTrump @GreggJarrett @LouDobbs So many Trump tweets with all kinds of misspellings, grammatical errors, l… https://t.co/zk6qFC4kiB— Sparky77 (@Sparky77) 1558663162.0
@RudyGiuliani @realDonaldTrump OMG. Trump claims he is "an extremely stable genius." Then tweets a FAKE video of… https://t.co/11uY6q95sF— Impeachments* Are Forever (@Impeachments* Are Forever) 1558661600.0
TRUMP STAMMERS THROUGH ENTIRE PRESIDENCY https://t.co/MLuZIvP84t— Dr. Crommunist (@Dr. Crommunist) 1558664713.0
If the media and Twitter do not make @realDonaldTrump pay a high price for this outrageous behavior, then the messa… https://t.co/GCY8rOCl0l— Joe Lockhart (@Joe Lockhart) 1558664544.0
No one needs to doctor a video to demonstrate just how incoherent @realDonaldTrump is.— George Conway (@George Conway) 1558663257.0