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FAKE NEWS: President Trump Orders the Execution of Five Turkeys Pardoned by Obama
The alleged author is R.Hobbus J.D and the website that he is associated with is realnewsrightnow.com. This post originated from within the U.S since this post is about President Trump and Thanksgiving. The main content is about how President Trump orders the execution of five turkeys that President Obama pardons, which is basically the title of the article. In the article, it is centered around how President Trump signed an executive order for the execution of the five turkeys and this parallels how the Trump administration has been reversing what the Obama administration has done.
Since this article was posted on the week of Thanksgiving, it would give readers the incentive to read the article. In addition, the ridiculous title, “President Trump Orders the Execution of FIve Turkeys Pardoned By Obama”, captures readers’ attention by making them wonder if this article is actually true. Also, this article involves President Trump and since his presidency, he has been on the news for numerous issues from net neutrality through ‘trophy elephant imports’, he has manage to be on the news almost everyday. Different strategies that this article uses to influence viewers is that it’s clearly targeting individuals that are against the Trump administration. It adds fuel to the fire by saying that this is another thing that Trump is doing by executing these innocent
turkeys. In addition, in a quote supposedly said by White House Press Sean Spicer addressing the origin of the sixteen turkeys that were previously pardoned by President Obama, “There are a lot of obvious questions we just don’t have the answers to. Were they connected to radical Islamic terrorism? Black Lives Matter extremists? We can’t be sure”. Clearly, this is made to be a joke that targets the crucial issues that have been raging the nation for years. This article is made to poke and jab at the current president and this is used to be more chaos-inducing. It was made to say that President Trump has even managed to ruin Thanksgiving and it even gives details of how the turkeys will be executed, “The remaining birds – Tater, Tot, Abe, Honest, and Cheese – are scheduled to be remanded into federal custody on Friday before they are turned over to officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons who are under orders to execute the turkeys by firing squad.”
This article is supposed to be satirical and from the various details like the mentions of ISIS and Black Lives Matters being related to the turkeys or how the turkeys will be executed by the firing squad. The reader is easily able to figure out that this article is fake. Also, the website origin realnewsrightnow.com is already a dead ringer that this is not a reliable news site. In addition, the author of this article is apparently “an internationally acclaimed independent investigative journalist specializing in international politics, health, business, science, conflict resolution, history, geography, mathematics, social issues, feminism, space travel, civil rights, human rights, animal rights, fashion, film, astronomy, classic literature, religion, biology, paranormal activity, the occult, physics, psychology, and creative writing.” This seems like a very large spectrum of topics that one person is addressing but, they are writing about how Trump is killing innocent turkeys.
This article would not fool me since their claims do not have credible sources or any sources. In addition, they make Trump sound like a malicious person that kills what Obama has worked so hard to preserve. While I do not support Trump nor do I condone most of his actions towards the bettering of the nation, I do not believe that he would waste his time signing an executive order on the execution of turkey to prove to the nation his hatred for the Obama administration.
Author of the article: R.Hobbus J.D , Website: http://archive.is/DJ2L1