Claim to Fame: 45th President of the United States
Why He's The Person of the Week: for calling out Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel for tweeting out an inaccurate crowd photo of Trump’s rally this week in Pensacola, Florida. Weigel tweeted out the photo in lieu of Trump’s “packed to the rafters” crowd size boast from Florida the previous night. But Trump got the last laugh.
Attempting to replay Trump's inauguration crowd-size debacle earlier this year, Weigel's tweet consisted of a photo of a not-packed arena. The photo, though, apparently was taken earlier in the evening, before Trump’s speech.
So just after 5 pm that same day, Trump tweeted, “@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/thousands of people outside, on their way in. Real photos now shown as I spoke. Packed house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo!”
Right after seeing the President's tweet Weigel would delete his tweet and promptly apologized for it.
However, Trump wasn’t satisfied with Weigel’s apology over the soon-viral rafter tweet, and said yesterday the reporter should be fired. The President claimed Weigel knew the Pensacola venue was “packed” when the reporter tweeted a photo of a sparse crowd, a claim not supported by Weigel’s explanation. That wouldn't surprise anyone who's been aware of the liberal media's utter contempt for the President as well as their continued attempts to bring him down with "fake news".
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