That Viral Trump Tweet About Impeaching Presidents if the Dow Drops Is Fake

President Donald Trump announced extremely high tariffs on goods coming from virtually every country around the world Wednesday, sending global markets into the toilet. The Dow was down over 1,600 points Thursday and a tweet that appeared to come from Trump has gone viral in the wake of the president’s inexplicable actions to crater the U.S. economy. But we regret to inform you that the one tweet you’re seeing everywhere is completely fake. A screenshot of the supposed Trump tweet reads, “If the Dow drops 1000 points in two days, the President should be impeached immediately!” The tweet appears to have a date of Nov. 6, 2012, when Barack Obama was president. But there’s absolutely no evidence that this one is real. Snopes actually first debunked it back in 2018, when this fake screenshot of that Trump tweet appears to have been created. At the time, around Oct. 11, 2018, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had just lost 1,378 points. And Trump was famously critical of President Obama, e ... Read full article.