In May 2013, Donald Trump Favorited A Satirical Article On Ted Cruz’s Citizenship. 2 1/2 years later he turned that joke into real life.
Donald Trump joined Twitter on March 18, 2009. He has 6 million Twitter followers, follows 49 people. And, in the nearly 7 years since he has been on Twitter has sent 30,600 Tweets and has only favorited/liked 61.
Only 61. So what’s Donald Trump been favoriting/liking…
Warnings about the number of minority babies!
Don’t think right-wing gun advocates will like this…
What a foreshadow!
Context: Donald Trump is a birther, which is someone that thinks President Obama is not American and was not born in the United States. In late 2012/early 2013, Trump’s anti-Obama birther crusade reached a fever pitch. There was plenty of mocking and derision of Trump’s birtherism.
Back in May 2013, Donald Trump favorited a Tweet that mocked Trump’s birtherism with fake Trump press release announcing that he was also going birther against Ted Cruz. Who knew that 2 1/2 years later, he’d end up turning that joke into reality.
The Tweet/article that Trump favorited:
The Tweet links to the following satirical news article:
From the Desk of Donald Trump (née Drumpf)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
It took great courage for Senator Rafael Cruz to come forward today and reveal voluntarily that he is actually a citizen of Canada.
This is the kind of courage that runs in the Cruz family. His dad did, after all, fight with Castro during the Communist revolution in his native Cuba, before taking his new wife to a socialist Canadian hospital to give birth to Rafael, Jr.
As my gazillions of adoring Twitter fans know, I encourage everyone to embrace their heritage. Whether it’s Jon Stewart, Ted Cruz, or even the rest of the Drumpf family. (Sorry kids, Trump’s just a name granddaddy Drumpf made up.)
Rafael “Ted” Cruz is just the kind of politician Canada needs right now. I encourage him to head north immediately to defund the Canadian healthcare system and start fracking the bejesus out of the land of the “True North Strong and Free.”
I commend Ted Cruz for his leadership, his commitment to building a stronger Canada, and above all his thick and lustrous hair.
I wish him the very best in his future endeavors.
Two and half years after Trump favorited that satirical article, Trump turned the joke into real life. Here are some of Trump’s actual Tweets:
Donald Trump: Where parody becomes reality.
(Because he’s likely to delete or remove some of his favorited/liked Tweets and claim that I am a liar, here is a full archive of all 61 of Donald Trump’s favorite Tweets as of 2/2/2016.)
