President Trump sent out a tweet that included the phrase “Oldies will have to die” in connection with lifting coronavirus restrictions.
The fake tweet originated from an article published in the satire section "Laughing in Disbelief" of Patheos.com on May 8, 2020 titled "\Oldies Will Have To Die\ Tweets Trump" (archived here) which contained a fake tweet that read:, The fake tweet was supposedly sent on May 8, 2020:, , However a search for the phrase "oldies will have to die" on the Trump Twitter archive yielded no results, nor did a search of his account via Twitter\s own search page and the tweet was also not visible in the Internet Archive when a snapshot was taken of Trump\s account on May 9, 2020 shortly after midnight., The link to the supposed tweet in the Patheos article actually went to a page that explained it was all satire:, Is This Satire?, "Hello, my name is Andrew Hall and Im the author of Laughing in Disbelief. Before getting to business I just want to thank you for taking some time and reading one of my posts. I appreciate it!", "You probably clicked a link to a story and youre here.", The story you were reading is satirical., NewsGuard, a company that uses trained journalist to rank the reliability of websites, describes patheos.com as:, According to NewsGuard the site can generally be trusted to maintain journalistic standards. Read their full assessment here., See who is sharing it (it might even be your friends...) and leave the link in the comments.:, Lead Stories co-founder\xa0Maarten Schenk is our resident expert on fake news and hoax websites. He likes to go beyond just debunking trending fake news stories and is\xa0endlessly fascinated by the dazzling variety of psychological and technical tricks used by the people and networks who intentionally spread\xa0made-up things on the internet.\xa0 He can often be found at conferences and events about fake news, disinformation and fact checking when he is not in his office in Belgium monitoring and tracking the latest fake article to go viral., Note: if reading this fact check makes you want to contact us to complain about bias, please check out our Blue feed first., Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or\n      inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet.\n      \n      Spotted something? Let us know!., Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or\n        inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet.\n        \n        Spotted something? Let us know!.
Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Tweet 'Oldies Will Have To Die' | Lead Stories