Fake: 2009 Trump Tweet About Pandemic

Fake: 2009 Trump Tweet About Pandemic

The tweet in question is not genuine (Getty Images).

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Since April 2020, an image has become popular on social media depicting a tweet from 2009 from now-president Donald Trump. The tweet criticizes then-president Barack Obama’s handling of a supposed pandemic going on at the time and claims that Trump would be able to lead the nation through such a pandemic better.

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