Reporters Fall for Fake Document of Trump Making Absurd Demands in Israel

Washington Free Bacon ^ | 05/22/2017 | Alex Griswold

[ForYourChildren]

Reporters on Monday fell for a fake "White House" document that supposedly showed President Donald Trump making unusual demands of his Israeli hosts during his trip abroad.

The Twitter account Rogue White House Senior Advisor on Friday shared what it claimed was Trump's demands ahead of a trip to Israel, including roughly a metric ton of sugary and non-kosher junk food.

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Some elements of the purported demands were obvious jokes. The demand that microwaves remain unplugged was a mocking reference to White House advisor Kellyanne Conway's bizarre comment that the appliance could be used for spying, and the request for electoral maps to be posted on each walls mocked Trump's tendency to allude to his victory.

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Other reporters at the Jerusalem Post, Business Insider, the Nation, NBC News, the Washington Post, and Mother Jones soon shared Ahronheim's tweet.

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One of the reporters to retweet Ahronheim was Glenn Kessler, editor of the Washington Post‘s Fact-Checker blog.

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[ForYourChildren]

And my favorite retweet:

“Oh boy do I have a lot to say here. First, he’s asking for bacon. Bacon! King David is strictly kosher – where will they put the bacon? https://t.co/yAzytqofSQ “

— Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) May 22, 2017

[Sasparilla]

....the MSM will publish anything and everything about the President, real or not. However, the more preposterous the story is, the closer it is to becoming the lead story for the day, and the more repetition it gets.

[nickedknack]

Too easy to bait the Fake News Media with...well, fake media. One could coat a false Trump story with equine excrement, and the Fakers would gobble it up.

[I want the USA back]

Did he get two scoops of ice cream?

[silverleaf]

That was from the scoop nazi- reporters only got one
“ You! One scoop! One scoop for you!”

[xzins]

Could such documents be a way to catch leakers?

[End Times Sentinel]

.the MSM will publish anything and everything about the President, real or not.

So true.

They've abandoned any similance of truth or balance. They've gone fully over the edge towards rabid, raving hatred for Trump.

[KitJ]

Heh.

I see what you did there.

Washington Free Bacon

[snicker]

[HarleyLady27]

...but those of us on tweeter knew it was fake...

We are very careful to watch who sends what out...to much fake news going around...

and when they said ‘bacon’ we knew if was as phony as the person posting it...

[ForYourChildren]

Ya, and check out my post at #2.

[RummyChick]

I have never heard of a half chilled bottle of coke..but we know he drinks diet..not regular

[ForYourChildren]

"and when they said ‘bacon’ we knew if was as phony as the person posting it..."

Hey, nothing phony about "bacon."

[ForYourChildren]

And my favorite..

A bacon sandwich with extra bacon.

[Az Joe]

What would be the best way to create and “flood the zone” with fake, anti-Trump stories? I mean OUR fake, anti-Trump stories, not the medias

[ForYourChildren]

If you think I added too much lettuce in that salad I made. I can do this instead.

[Arthur McGowan]

Nobody can spell anymore: “pealed” eggs.

[jughandle]

Ok, who else wants to be a CNN anonymous news source and have some fun?

[VRWCarea51]

Me...Me.... Me.....Hey over here, ME!

I saw Donald once grab a pussy and make it howl.

I think it was a Persian.

[Kickass Conservative]

Of course that’s fake, he would have asked for Kosher Bacon.