On December 12, 2021, or 12/12/21 (some cool symmetry in there), Donald Trump issued the following Tweet:

“It is truly amazing how the media accurately reports the Official Statements that I put out as Official Statements which are not at all tweets, nor are they to serve as tweets. The media even accurately reports precisely how I capitalize everything. The media is one of the most necessary and honorable aspects of Americal culture and body politic.

Donald J. Trump >45.5th president of the United States.

Nah, just joshin,’ of course. This is the statement that Trump put out on the strangely symmetrical day:

NEW!

President Donald J. Trump:

“It’s amazing how inaccurately the Fake News Media covers my statements. They will take something I say and literally write the exact opposite. They truly are a disgrace and disaster for our Country. Make America Great Again!” pic.twitter.com/bJQYqABpj4

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) December 13, 2021

“It’s amazing how inaccurately the Fake News Media covers my statements. They will take something I say and literally write the exact opposite. They truly are a disgrace and disaster for our Country. Make America Great Again!”

Wait. We did that very thing right above. We took something you said and literally wrote the exact opposite. Now you are saying that’s a disgrace? What is going on here?

Because the fact is, we take your tweets and publish them word for word. (They are tweets, just via Liz Harrington without his 80 million followers). The fact that the entire world knows that you have lied for a living for over 50 years is not the media’s fault. (If you don’t lie for a living, what’s up with all the NDAs? All the assertions of executive privilege? If you have ever told the truth, why are you so very terrified that any of it gets released?

Regardless. We have always published Trump’s statements word for word. He says we get the statements 100% wrong when we publish the exact words. Fine. On this occasion, just to be sure, we published the exact opposite, did we get it right this time?

Somehow, we at this site believe we’re a lot closer to the truth.

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