Allies of former President Donald Trump took to X on Monday to spread memes about debunked claims that migrants from Haiti are eating household pets in Ohio. The Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, which is tasked with overseeing the judicial branch of the federal government, posted to the Elon Musk-owned social media platform an Al-generated image of Trump hugging a duck and kitten and captioned it, “Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio!” In December of 2022, the same account famously deleted its tweet, “Kanye. Elon. Trump,” after rapper Kanye West publicly praised Hitler. Musk, the South Africa-born billionaire who has publicly endorsed Trump and is known for his outlandish and anti-immigrant posturing on X, replied with a “smiling face with 3 hearts” emoji. Musk went on to share a meme of his own that showed cartoon characters Bart and Lisa Simpson mourning their cat, captioned, “Ohio rn.” Musk appeared to choose the Simpsons characters for his meme as the story regarding the migrants eating pets originated out of Springfield, Ohio and the long-running animated show took place in a fictional town named Springfield. Mediaite’s David Gilmour reported on the origin of the claim, “The claim that Haitian immigrants were abducting and consuming pets, particularly cats and ducks, appears to have begun when some right-wing accounts amplified a Fox News report about Allexis Telia Ferrell, who was arrested in August for allegedly killing and eating a cat.”
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/110/349/099/417/610/original/4ddc452c47df1440.png
Maddad ☑️
All GNU social JP content and data are available under the 