Trump tells two false tales about Oprah Winfrey, together with one he’s been repeating for 11 years
Former President Donald Trump informed two fictional tales about Oprah Winfrey on Saturday – certainly one of them new, one other he has been telling for at the very least 11 years.
Trump’s claims about Winfrey are each trivial. However they’re the most recent on a protracted listing of latest examples of the Republican presidential nominee delivering vivid but imaginary tales as he once more seeks the nation’s highest workplace.
The top of Winfrey’s tv present
Winfrey endorsed Trump’s opponent within the presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris, on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August. Winfrey hosted a reside streamed virtual campaign rally for Harris in Michigan on Thursday.
In a social media publish late Saturday evening, Trump wrote, “A very long time in the past, Oprah Winfrey requested me to do her final Community Tv Present. The ultimate week of her present was an enormous deal, and it was my honor, with my household, to do it.” He went on to criticize Harris and say that when he watched Winfrey’s occasion together with her, “I couldn’t assist however assume this isn’t the true Oprah.”
Details First: Trump’s declare is fake. He didn’t seem on the final episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Present” in 2011, nor even within the star-studded last week of the present. Quite, Trump appeared on the present about three-and-a-half months earlier than it ended.
Winfrey’s present concluded on May 25, 2011. Trump and his household appeared in the episode that aired on February 7, 2011.
Attempting to magnify his previous significance to Winfrey, who has supported Trump’s Democratic opponents in every of the final three presidential elections, Trump falsely boasted at the very least 4 occasions throughout his presidency that he was on her well-liked present in its last week. CNN fact-checked the claim in October 2020 – and famous Trump had been making it since at least 2013.
The precise last week of the present featured a star-studded arena tribute to Winfrey – which included distinguished celebrities reminiscent of Michael Jordan, Will Smith, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Surprise, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Beyoncé, however not Trump – and appearances by memorable non-entertainer company from previous episodes. The very last episode starred Winfrey alone.
Winfrey’s McDonald’s remark
Trump has repeatedly claimed that Harris is mendacity about having as soon as labored at McDonald’s. (The Harris marketing campaign says she labored at a restaurant in California throughout a summer time when she was in faculty within the Eighties.)
At a marketing campaign rally in North Carolina earlier on Saturday, Trump said: “And didn’t Oprah ask her about her time at McDonald’s? And she or he simply type of didn’t need to reply that one. ‘Let me not discuss that.’ Oprah stated, ‘You’re employed at McDonald’s, that’s nice.’ You already know, Oprah didn’t hear the top end result; she by no means labored there. So Kamala simply type of hid underneath the desk, together with each different reply she gave.”
Details First: Trump’s declare that Harris dodged a query from Winfrey about working at McDonald’s is fake. In actuality, Winfrey by no means even requested Harris about working at McDonald’s. Quite, Winfrey passingly talked about the McDonald’s job throughout her introduction of Harris – earlier than the vp walked onstage for his or her dialog.
This was Winfrey’s only mention of McDonald’s at the event: “In no different nation on this Earth might her story unfold the way in which it has. From a toddler of immigrants to large sister to McDonald’s employee – there may be hope for y’all – district legal professional, a spouse and ‘Momala’ to senator to vp. Please welcome Kamala Harris.”
Harris walked out to applause, hugged Winfrey, and so they started their dialog on non-McDonald’s topics.
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