Did Donald Trump and Colin Kaepernick Have a Twitter Spat?

Beware satire, folks.

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A viral post from popular Facebook page NFL Memes purportedly showing a Twitter interaction between President Donald Trump and Colin Kaepernick left Facebook users on both sides of the aisle confused over if the tweets were real. 

Facebook users criticized Trump and Kaepernick in the post’s comments. Their concerns, however, are unwarranted: The interaction never took place. Looking through both Trump’s and Kaepernick’s Twitter profiles shows that neither shared the tweets in question on September 8, 2020, when they supposedly occurred. Kaepernick has not tweeted since August 14. An archive of Trump’s tweets shows that it isn’t among his deleted tweets either.

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    CynthiaW

    If you want really true truth, try the Babylon Bee.

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    Chris L

    Normally I'd be surprised, but people also still need to be reminded of The Onion.

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    Victor Clairmont

    Hah, fake news. Though this one might be harder to detect since it's words on twitter. But just go to their twitter timelines and do a search and it would be cleared up if you were not sure.

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    Dave

    Well, they're both right, even if they didn't say that.

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