President Donald Trump continued to push unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud on Wednesday, telling a conservative news outlet that people change clothes and vote again.
The president made the claims amid frustration among many Republicans regarding the recounts underway in Florida for its gubernatorial and Senate races and in Georgia for its gubernatorial election.
“The Republicans don’t win and that’s because of potentially illegal votes,” Trump told the Daily Caller. “When people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. Nobody takes anything. It’s really a disgrace what’s going on.”
Trump’s claims were not the first time he’s said voters cast ballots fraudulently in elections. He claimed the same thing following his election as president and has pushed a narrative about illegal votes since the midterm elections last week, where Democrats took control of the House of Representatives.
The president’s insistence that people change their clothing before voting again (even though there is no evidence of such a thing happening) was quickly mocked online, with many people making comparisons to cartoon characters and superheroes.
https://twitter.com/Weiss_Tea/status/1062803543969685506
“Sometimes, I don’t know, they come dressed as Batman or Spider-Man. Then they leave, come back and vote again as Peter Parker or Bruce Wayne! I don’t know, people are saying…” https://t.co/67hy5tB3HN
— Muad’Dave (@mdrich) November 14, 2018
Apparently Scooby Doo villains are the illegal voters https://t.co/FPUC9SToOx
— || | ( |{ (@nifi22) November 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/ArmyVet0613/status/1062802663262314496
Things that can be inferred from this stenographic interview from the Daily Caller: The president’s understanding of nigh-nonexistent voter fraud comes from bugs bunny cartoons, and he has also never bought his own groceries pic.twitter.com/xAnfuBOTnv
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) November 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/1062798653285457920
I like that Trump thinks that people cast false votes in the same way that characters in cartoons change costumes to get more Halloween candy…
— Abraham Drinkin’ (@QuickWitBigTit) November 14, 2018
“please sir we would like to vote democrat” pic.twitter.com/9LFhK8IFWj
— B (@Hey__Brittany) November 14, 2018
While many people made jokes about cartoons, there was even a reference to the New York Mets. In 1999, the team’s then-manager Bobby Valentine was ejected from a game, put on a fake mustache, and went back into the dugout.
https://twitter.com/ByChrisLang/status/1062802409779531784
Clearly people aren’t buying Trump’s latest idea of illegal voting.
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