{"id":95304,"date":"2020-02-08T14:23:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T18:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=95304"},"modified":"2020-02-08T14:23:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T18:23:54","slug":"revisiting-the-trump-mocked-disabled-reporter-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=95304","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the &#8220;Trump Mocked Disabled Reporter&#8221; Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95337\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-95337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Serge-Kovalevski-and-Donald-Trump-by-New-Standard-Press-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Serge-Kovalevski-and-Donald-Trump-by-New-Standard-Press-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Serge-Kovalevski-and-Donald-Trump-by-New-Standard-Press-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Serge-Kovalevski-and-Donald-Trump-by-New-Standard-Press.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This meme is still making the rounds, and people still believe that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump made fun of Serge Kovalevski&#8217;s disability. However, this is just a snapshot of Donald Trump doing something else. (New Standard Press)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People are still accusing President Trump of mocking a disabled reporter. Memes making this argument are still circulating. They show a side-by-side of President Trump and the disabled reporter. Both in similar poses, with nearly similar arm and hand positions. The implication? That then-candidate Donald Trump mocked a disabled reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, those against him try to picture him as a monster. Then people ask how his supporters can still support him given that he &#8220;made fun&#8221; of a disabled reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Video proof, that this claim is false, have also been circulating. President Trump does the arm and body shake when he parodies somebody flaking out, getting flustered, or &#8220;tap dancing&#8221; their responses. All one has to do is watch videos of President Trump doing these parodies to see this in context.<\/p>\n<p>Many among the anti-Trump group don&#8217;t do that. They&#8217;d rather pass a snapshot around, showing Trump&#8217;s arms similar to that of the reporter, then they include their comments condemning President Trump and those who&#8217;d still support him after seeing this photo.<\/p>\n<p>For them, context matters when their chosen politician says things. Not necessarily with the other side. So, they run with the meme partly hoping that people would turn away from President Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstandardpress.com\/did-trump-mock-that-disability\">New Standard Press<\/a> shows how he is parodying people, and not making fun of disabled people.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CsaB3ynIZH4\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are still accusing President Trump of mocking a disabled reporter. Memes making this argument are &hellip; <a title=\"Revisiting the &#8220;Trump Mocked Disabled Reporter&#8221; Claim\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=95304\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revisiting the &#8220;Trump Mocked Disabled Reporter&#8221; Claim<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95338,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95304\/revisions\/95338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}