Donald Trump shares Babylon Bee’s satirical story like it’s real news

US President Donald Trump has faced another round of online taunting after sharing a cheeky parody article as if it were real news.

Shortly after 6 a.m. on Friday (US time), Trump, who frequently accuses the media of spreading false information, posted a link to an article from a well-known satirical website, The Babylon. Bee.

To make it clear how obviously satirical it is, the site’s tagline is: “Fake News You Can Trust.”

The story stated that Twitter had shut down its entire network to curb the spread of negative news about the president’s electoral opponent, Joe Biden.

“Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his very bad interview last night. Why is Twitter doing this? Drawing more attention to Sleepy Joe and Big Tech,” Trump wrote.

Apparently, he didn’t realize that he was sharing the link about Twitter shutting down his own network … on the Twitter network that is still running.

At the time of writing, about two hours after Trump posted the tweet, it was still active.

However, since you will probably realize your mistake at some point and silently erase it, I have opted to include a screenshot here rather than embed it.

We can only assume that Trump did not actually read the article, as no adult with a working brain could do so and still treat it as real news.

“In a last-ditch effort to stop the spread of negative stories about Joe Biden and his family, Twitter shut down its entire social network on Thursday,” it reads.

After seeing a tweet for account after telling a particularly bad story, CEO Jack Dorsey realized he had to take action. Dorsey broke a glass box in his office that read ‘Break in case of bad publicity for Democrats. “destroying Twitter servers.

“‘Red Alert: Shut Down Servers! Shut Down All!’

Dorsey ran downstairs and started smashing as many computers as he could, but he needed to call for help as the hammer was quite heavy. None of the programmers were able to lift the hammer either. Eventually, they managed to program [sic] a robot to pick up the deck and smash the servers.

“After hearing Twitter employees talk about critical theory, the robot woke up and started attacking all cis white males.”

The Babylon Bee took the president’s mistake in stride, quickly running another parody article reporting that he had declared it their most trusted news source.

“In the wake of his long-awaited Fake News Awards, President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday that while most news sources are ‘totally fake,’ there is one he trusts more than any other: The Babylon Bee “he boasted.

“His comments came in response to a reporter who asked if there are any news sources that he relies solely on in light of his rampant mistrust of the media.

“‘Everybody knows I really like Fox & Friends, but look, The Babylon Bee is the best. They are tremendous, no one else comes close to the quality and truth of their reporting,’ Trump told reporters.

“‘I read The Bee every day because I always know that what I am reading is 100% accurate.’

“’Even when they hit me, which they do quite a bit, what can I say? I will accept it. It’s all true, ‘he laughed.

“The president admitted to updating Bee’s home page ‘sometimes hundreds’ of times a day for the latest stories.

“‘I’m glad they don’t have a TV show yet, I’d never get to do anything!'”

Critics of Trump on social media were equally amused and proceeded to roast him.

The timing of the president’s mishap was perhaps appropriate. It came hours after his appearance on a city council forum on NBC, during which he was questioned about his unfortunate habit of sharing misinformation and conspiracy theories on Twitter.

“Just this week, he retweeted to his 87 million followers a conspiracy theory that Joe Biden orchestrated so that the SEAL Team Six, the Navy SEAL Team Six, was assassinated to cover up the false death of [Osama] Bin Laden. Now why would you send a lie like that to your followers? ”Moderator Savannah Guthrie asked.

“I don’t know anything about it,” Trump protested.

“You retweeted it,” he pointed out.

“That was a retweet. That was someone’s opinion, and that was a retweet. I’ll post it. People can decide for themselves. I don’t take a position,” Trump said.

“I don’t get it. You’re the president. You’re not, like, someone’s crazy uncle who can just retweet whatever,” Guthrie said.

“That was a retweet. And I do a lot of retweets. And frankly, because the media is so fake and so corrupt, if I didn’t have social media, I wouldn’t call it Twitter, I call it social media. I couldn’t get the word out.” Trump argued.

“Well the word is false,” she replied.

“And do you know what the word is? The word is very simple. We are building our country, stronger and better than ever,” concluded the president.

Trump may have been particularly susceptible to Bee’s satirical story on Twitter today, as he is currently embroiled in a very real dispute with the social media giant.

The president is angry at Twitter for preventing his campaign and supporters from sharing an article about Biden and his son Hunter’s business in Ukraine.

That’s another story, which you can read about in detail here.