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Shortly after President Obama defended a Donald Trump supporter at a rally for Hillary Clinton in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the Republican nominee insisted something else entirely had happened. While speaking to supporters in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Trump suggested Obama spent most of the viral moment “screaming” at the elderly gentleman who raised a Trump campaign sign. NBC News and other outlets were quick to fact-check the claim on Friday night, but that didn’t stop the real estate mogul from repeating it at another rally held in Tampa, Florida Saturday morning.
“Whenever there’s a protester, the only time those cameras move — the only time — they pick out a protester because that’s a negative thing. And yet Obama today spoke,” said Trump on Friday, “and there was a protester, and a protester that likes us. What happened is they wouldn’t put the cameras on him. They kept the cameras on Obama… he was talking to the protester, screaming at him. Really screaming at him.”
The president did shout throughout the clip Trump was referring to, but he was clearly directing his ire at the crowd — and not the Trump supporter. Even so, the Republican nominee stuck to his false assertion while referencing the very video that disproves it. He then repeated it at the Tampa rally Saturday morning, again claiming Obama had screamed at the pro-Trump protester while the media’s cameras refused to turn away from the president.
Here’s what Obama actually said on Friday:
(Via NBC News, Vox and Huffington Post)
