As has been reported in recent weeks, Katrina Pierson seems to enjoy fudging up facts, figures, and history during her media appearances representing the Trump campaign. She’s left hosts scratching their heads with some of her spin, has stretched time to blame President Obama for things he had no hand in, and has even forced the Trump campaign to speak out about her gaffes. Following Pierson’s comments blaming Obama for Captain Khan’s death in 2004, many on the internet took to the hashtag #KatrinaPiersonHistory to joke about where else she could place the president in history.
Now, following her most recent error that placed the blame for the war in Afghanistan at the feet of the president, folks have started to stream into the hashtag again. The results are a batch of history, fiction, and silliness that could only come from Election 2016.
First we have the folks who actually cracked a history book or visited Wikipedia to reference some real history with a touch of Obama flavor:
Obama's feckless policy allowed terrorists to seize the Bastille & overthrow French govt.#KatrinaPiersonHistory pic.twitter.com/ARqFAN7olL
— WeisseRose2016 (@WeisseRose2016) August 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/Annastear/status/761336085435785216
https://twitter.com/theblindsword/status/761313985081802752
Obama caused the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986. #katrinapiersonhistory pic.twitter.com/jcfEsKB206
— Joe Boeding (@JoeBoeding) August 4, 2016
Obama laughing at starving Americans after his New Deal polices led to the Great Depression #KatrinaPiersonHistory pic.twitter.com/8gcaTmMmsT
— Blake Moliere (@BlakeMoliere) August 13, 2016
#KatrinaPiersonHistory “World War Two was Obama’s war. He attacked Pearl Harbor.”
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) August 13, 2016
Obama attacked Pearl Harbor #KatrinaPiersonHistory https://t.co/PsVI5dAGkO
— Justin Kanew (@Kanew) August 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/764522205950709760
Obama burned down Atlanta in 1865, trying to light a joint. #KatrinaPiersonHistory pic.twitter.com/mb4kT7cbJu
— Jessica Wildfire (@JessicaLexicus) August 13, 2016
Obama knows where Jimmy Hoffa is. #KatrinaPiersonHistory
— HspncElvis (@HspncElvis) August 4, 2016
#KatrinaPiersonHistory Fact: Obama ordered the St. Valentine's Day massacre and Hillary was one of the shooters.
— Jeffrey Lebowski🇺🇸🇺🇦🏴☠️🌊 🌊 (@JeffLebowski402) August 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/avi_yudkowsky/status/761265830315327489
Obama called every innkeeper and told them not to rent to Mary and Joseph #KatrinaPiersonHistory
— Lizz "Insufferable Wench" Winstead (@lizzwinstead) August 13, 2016
I swear, you can probably look back at photos of Pearl Harbor or the JFK assassination and find the trail left by Obama’s time zeppelin. It’s there and we need to stop lying to ourselves. Other folks decided to ignore history altogether and focus more on the pop culture aspect of it all. This includes a few Cubs fans who seem to forget that the president is a White Sox fan.
You have to wonder how many World Series the @Cubs may have won had Obama just allowed that goat into Wrigley Field.#KatrinaPiersonHistory
— Dennis Rondeau (@RondeauDennis) August 4, 2016
Obama took Joe Jackson's shoes, and a baseball legend was born… #KatrinaPiersonHistory
— Quinn Donovan – 🎙️- Views are my own (@qdsworld) August 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/Annastear/status/761265994908053504
https://twitter.com/ira/status/764591498251743232
Obama wants to take our guns and replace them with light sabers! #KatrinaPiersonHistory pic.twitter.com/ixah29PXLM
— portmanteau jones 🕊🌊🐈⬛ (@SadlyCatless) August 14, 2016
Obama directed Howard The Duck. #KatrinaPiersonHistory
— Josh Charles (@MrJoshCharles) August 14, 2016
Hogans Heroes is a great documentary about WW 2. #KATRINAPIERSONHISTORY
— Wink Buttermilk (@hugosmathers) August 4, 2016
#KatrinaPiersonHistory Hillary was driving pic.twitter.com/J9aAm56yK8
— Darn That Dream (@darn_dream) August 4, 2016
Obama wrote the horrible final episode of How I Met Your Mother, uuggh #katrinapiersonhistory
— Melissa (@Gigaflor) August 4, 2016
If it wasn't for Obama's failed policies, Ricky would still be alive. #KatrinaPiersonHistory pic.twitter.com/zRmyCGA74G
— Stewie P. Newton (@sekoudc) August 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/NessaSarah/status/761291094822903809
Obama was underwater, slowly peeling Jack's fingers off the raft. #KatrinaPiersonHistory pic.twitter.com/70HlCcIBey
— Karen DaltonBeninato (@kbeninato) August 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/murk112/status/761354316015894528
The DNA that made the dinosaurs dangerous in Jurassic Park? Obama genes. #KatrinaPiersonHistory
— What The F's Next (@WTFsNext) August 5, 2016
When will Obama apologize for Nickleback? #KatrinaPiersonHistory
— Sarah Burris 🌻 (@SarahBurris) August 3, 2016
When will Obama apologize for Nickelback? I’ve been waiting for at least 10 years for that one. Also need to pour one out for Ricky because that one still gets me all teary-eyed. If only he was a little faster and Obama didn’t force him to go to the store. There’s also this one which some people might actually believe, which is scary:
https://twitter.com/LoraineBlue9/status/764535579564539905
The beauty of this hashtag is that there’s truly no end to it. There’s a lot of history to dig through and make throwaway comments about, plus Katrina Pierson doesn’t seem to be going anywhere until at least November. The chances of her saying more bogus information on national television is high.