Eric Trump's Attempts to Spread Disinformation Backfires After Social Media Shoots off Sharp Responses
Eric Trump made another attempt to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election [...]
Yes
Yes
— Darren M. A. Calvert (@DMACalvert) November 28, 2020
Yeah. People don't like your dad.They're not too thrilled with you either. Have a coke and a smile. @realDonaldTrump @EricTrump https://t.co/9OWbX5j0BG
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) November 28, 2020
The majority of top responses to Eric's tweet simply read: "yes," either in replies, quote-tweets or screenshots. The rhetorical question set Eric up perfectly for this monosyllabic comeback.
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People really hate your dad
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 28, 2020
One of the most popular retorts to Eric's tweet was an explanatory joke about Americans voting against Trump, not necessarily for President-elect Joe Biden. To some, this weakens Biden's position, since voters were casting their ballots for him by default. Still, in the context of Eric's joke, it was a popular comeback.
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Every time your father appeared for his big rallies, for us it was effectively negative advertising: a perfect example of what we couldn’t stand about Trump and Trumpism. We couldn’t wait to vote against him. All 80 million of us. https://t.co/VhQtGBE4DZ
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) November 28, 2020
Former Star Trek star George Takei argued while Biden didn't campaign in the usual way, Trump campaigned for him. He said that Trump's ads and rallies were "negative advertising," pushing Americans towards Biden by default.
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deal with this moron .. the question is does anyone really believe @realDonaldTrump actually got 70 million votes https://t.co/Ah2yeqQs1r pic.twitter.com/ms8fBkAXph
— mscherer (@mscherer0902) November 28, 2020
Like most of Eric's posts, this one got responses claiming that he "stole money from children's cancer charities." According to a report by Snopes, this claim is basically false — however, the Trump Foundation was found to be "in persistent violation of state and federal laws governing New York State charities" by the state's attorney general, Barbara Underwood. Eric and Ivanka Trump were named personally in this case, which led to the Trump Foundation being dissolved in an out-of-court settlement.
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I can’t believe your father got any votes either election.
But here we are.
How do you look in orange?
— Brendun01 ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊💙♻️🌍🌎🌏 (@brendun01) November 28, 2020
While Eric was surprised by the number of votes Biden got, many responders said they were more surprised by the number of votes Trump got, in light of his performance as president over the last four years. Many were concerned to find that so many Americans still supported him.
prevnextRepublican Voting Policies
— Jake Kaney (@KaneyJake) November 28, 2020
Many critics argued that Republicans have no right to be surprised by increased voter turnout in 2020 based on their preferences for voting policy over the last few years. Republicans generally opposed mail-in voting in the 2020 presidential election, and have pursued other policies that would make it harder for the average person to vote, not easier.
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Well, the US population in 2010 was approximately 309 million, whereas, in 2020, it's about 333 million. Between that and the country hating your father as much as we do, yes, it's "bigly" believable.#Election2020 #ConcedeAlready https://t.co/ycuq6Hdm85
— Craig Rozniecki (@CraigRozniecki) November 28, 2020
Yes Eric, see, each year, more people are born than die. Well, in years your father didn't screw up and cause over 265,000 deaths and counting that is. And more people came out this year to vote than in any other year past, simply to vote out your father.
— Carrie C (@ccourter) November 28, 2020
Some commenters pointed out that the number of votes is likely to increase relative to population increase, so on the most basic level, it makes sense for there to be more votes in the 2020 presidential election than the 2012 presidential election.
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