Trump is your dangerously gullible uncle on Facebook

[StrictlyRockers]

Trump spreads conspiracy theories all the time. But last night, he went too far even for Laura Ingraham.

He claimed shadowy figures are controlling Joe Biden and sending black-clad Antifa on planes to wreak havoc. When pressed for details, he said it's "under investigation."

The fake story was born on Facebook, which has become the go-to venue for terrified suburban boomers pushing conspiracy theories.

Donald Trump famously, proudly, does not like to read. He does, however, "hear" things all the time.

He frequently hears "a lot of people saying" ridiculous, incendiary, and patently false things, many of which can be traced to far-right message boards.

From there, such conspiratorial lies often migrate to the cursed social media website which replaced the paranoid chain email for terrified suburban boomers: Facebook. At that point, it's only a matter of time before they reach America's conspiracy-theorist-in-chief, Trump.

In an interview in his Fox News safe space with superfan Laura Ingraham Monday night, the president appeared to parrot a particularly stupid Facebook-driven story, one so wild that even Ingraham warned him that it sounded like a "conspiracy theory.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-dangerously-gullible-uncle-facebook-antifa-conspiracy-theory-2020-9

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[soothsayer]

1. I was at "He's gullible" but I swung back to "he's evil"

...when reminded that he’s effing evil and a big fat liar.

[unblock]

2. He's an internet troll. America decided to make an internet troll the president.

He lives on social media and fox news. He tweets and retweets and he's obsessed with the numbers on views and ratings and eyeballs and followers.

All his information and policy ideas come from right wing internet sources and Fox News.

He doesn't really propose actual legislation. For the most part, he merely tells someone to convert one of his tweets into an executive order. He probably thinks that's they way government is supposed to work anyway.

[Kali]

3. yep

he is a troll

[tanyev]

4. Except I doubt that he personally peruses Facebook,

and he rarely assumes the role of listener in any conversation, so how is this stuff seeping into his tiny chaotic brain? It can’t just be Fox News. Maybe one of Hope Hicks’ duties is to read to him from Facebook during his ‘executive time’.

[erpowers]

5. Trump Is Not Our "Dangerously Gullible Uncle on Facebook"

I do not think Trump believes many of the false things he says. He is not some guy falling for false stories on Facebook. He knows the stories he promotes are false, but he promotes them anyway. Trump supports and promotes anything and anyone who promotes and supports him. Trump recently said that the reason he does not oppose people who support Qanon is because Qanon people like and support him. That is the reason Trump keeps promoting conspiracy theories from Facebook and other places. He promotes them because he knows that they are coming from people who promote and support him.