The account has since deleted this Tweet. Credit: Twitter

First it was Breitbart.

In August, 2016, Steve Bannon’s right-wing site used a photo from the Cavs’ championship parade, gleaned from social media, and said it was from a Trump rally in Jacksonville, Fla.

The same thing happened last night at a Donald Trump rally in Arizona, the content of which we’ll refrain from remarking upon. (Maggie Haberman at the New York Times, though, called it “an angry, unbridled and unscripted performance that rivaled the most sulfurous rallies of his presidential campaign.”)

Twitter users, including the Tennessee Republican party, began tweeting an aerial shot of the parade to validate the strength of Trump’s support.

The account has since deleted this Tweet. Credit: Twitter
The Tennessee GOP account eventually deleted this tweet when their error was publicized, but not before it had been retweeted hundreds of times. Several other accounts, including those that tweeted yet another aerial photo of the Cavs championship parade, have deleted their Tweets.

“Frankly,” wrote the folks at AZcentral.com (the online home of Phoenix’s Arizona Republic), “anyone who is at all familiar with Phoenix should have known better. It’s a desert people.”

Trump’s rally, perhaps predictably, became a media bash session. He decried the “very dishonest people” working in journalism and at one point worked the crowd into a “CNN sucks” chant. He and his supporters remain preoccupied with their victimization at the hands of #fakenews.

This article appears in Aug 23-29, 2017.

Sam Allard is a former senior writer at Scene.

4 replies on “Trump Supporters Keep Using Photos from 2016 Cavs Parade to Lie About Rallies”

  1. Citizen Patriots! Stand at Attention and Salute Our Glorious Leader:

    “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Silver Legion of America,
    and to the one-drop rule for which it stands,
    one Nation under Donald J. Trump, indivisible,
    with liberty and justice for the believers.”

  2. This is almost like when the New York Times falsely reported with misleading photos that there weren’t as many New England Patriots at the White House for Trump as there were for Obama.

  3. Gotta wonder why the Trumpeters don’t just go with images of the Cub victory parade last November, which was three or four times the size of ours. Literally millions of deliriously happy people. Supposedly, five million (which is still somewhat hard to believe).

    Could be that the True Believers are trying this chicanery because they truly believe that most people are chumps, and that downtown Cleveland looks a lot more generic than a place such as easily-recognizable Chicago, with its iconic skyline.

    “Most people”…especially the Non-Believer Majority…are not all that stupid or gullible. If they keep on re-using the Cleveland parade images much longer, even Captain Obvious will soon be calling bullshit. ,

    Chuckles the Clown

  4. Why do the groupthink liberal zombies get mad that I mentioned the time when the NYT had fake news? It’s well documented. Even the team addressed it. I guess liberals like fake news if it favors them?

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