J.K. Rowling Goes on Anti-Trump Tweetstorm in Response to a Misleading Video
On Friday, author J.K. Rowling helped spread a video of President Trump that, while appearing to show him ignoring a child, was incredibly misleading.
The video, which was posted by a House Democrat’s aide on Twitter, went viral since it looked like Trump was ignoring the boy in the wheelchair. But that was not the case:
.@Ansel misleading followers.
Found full video, Pres. Trump spent more time with this little boy than with anyone else
CC: @KellyannePolls pic.twitter.com/iItnJsCO2a— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) July 28, 2017
Ansel Herz took down the tweet and apologized:
Deleted an earlier tweet because it turned out to be missing some context. Apologies.
— Ansel Herz (@Ansel) July 29, 2017
The Harry Potter author was one of the people who picked up on the video as it went viral and went on a tweetstorm about it:
'When someone shows you who they are, believe them.' – Maya Angelou https://t.co/Op6HUrRo80
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
Trump imitated a disabled reporter. Now he pretends not to see a child in a wheelchair, as though frightened he might catch his condition.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
This monster of narcissism values only himself and his pale reflections. The disabled, minorities, transgender people, the poor, women
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
(unless related to him by ties of blood, and therefore his creations) are treated with contempt, because they do not resemble Trump.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
My mother used a wheelchair. I witnessed people uncomfortable around her disability, but if they had a shred of decency they got over it. 1/
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
So, yes, that clip of Trump looking deliberately over a disabled child's head, ignoring his outstretched hand, has touched me on the raw. /2
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
That man occupies the most powerful office in the free world and his daily outrages against civilised norms are having a corrosive effect /3
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
How stunning, and how horrible, that Trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who only wanted to touch the President. /4x
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
Rowling posted those tweets on Friday, and she’s been getting criticized on Twitter for not taking them down now that it’s been made pretty clear the video was deceptively edited:
JK Rowling, in 8 tweets, raged that Trump snubbed a disabled boy.
This is Trump greeting that boy.
Why won't she delete & apologise? pic.twitter.com/c61cqRoBzE— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 30, 2017
J.K. Rowling’s tweet of a deceptively edited clip of Trump and a boy in a wheelchair has 58K+ RTs, and counting https://t.co/cn4mxj6w7h
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 29, 2017
Why hasn't @JK_Rowling corrected her bogus tweets about this? (https://t.co/9kdDSDkEQo) https://t.co/UjF0Pw8n7G
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 30, 2017
73k retweets for a video cut to make it look like @realDonaldTrump ignored a kid whose hand he shook the minute he entered the room. https://t.co/bG5kpEKJtN
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) July 29, 2017
Harry Potter and the Thing That Didn't Happen https://t.co/zFX87zofFs
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) July 29, 2017
This string of tweets based on a selective clip are still stacking retweets even though Trump talked to the disabled child at the start https://t.co/C5KWOGWANk
— Justin Green (@JGreenDC) July 30, 2017
Look, my brother is disabled. I get it. But you are purposely ignoring that this is not at all what happened. https://t.co/Ft5rlyX4Dc
— Allie Stuckey (@conservmillen) July 29, 2017
Chelsea Clinton retweeted one of Rowling’s tweets but took it down:
Hello Piers-I hadn't seen the full video until now. I removed the retweet. And, the President should have shaken the boy's hand at the end.
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) July 30, 2017
Dear @BrianStelter: Please call out @ChelseaClinton for RTing J.K. Rowling’s ‘bogus tweets’ https://t.co/sxq2vtqqTF
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 30, 2017
@brianstelter hi Brian, by the time you retweeted @TwitchyTeam, I had already undone the retweet. Hope you're having a wonderful Sunday!
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) July 30, 2017
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