In another bout of Inauguration Day fake news, liberal news reporters in the Oval Office claimed President Trump removed the bust of Martin Luther King from the office. The incorrect rumor/tweet spread through the liberal blogosphere like free safety-pins.
Time Magazine’s political correspondent Zeke Miller dropped the match and others quickly threw dry tinder on the rumor’s fire.
will we have as much of a collective freak out over the MLK bust being removed from the Oval as we did about the Churchill bust? prob not
— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 21, 2017
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer quickly refuted that rumor and corrected the media.
Thanks to White House Chief of Staff for this wonderful picture of the MLK bust in the oval pic.twitter.com/Lzgj6RljvI
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) January 21, 2017
A reminder of the media danger of tweet first check facts later https://t.co/dYqwRv1p0f
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) January 21, 2017