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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPeople Are Sharing Fake Pictures Of Bikers For Trump Heading To The Inauguration
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/bikers-for-trump-inauguration-fake-pictures-snip-
So far, only one permit for an explicitly pro-Trump group Let America Hear Us, Roar for Trump! has been issued for 20 people. Another pro-Trump permit requested by Travis Thompson Biker for 5,000 people to support Trump on Jan. 20 is currently being processed.
A permit for the most number of demonstrators so far 50,000 was issued for the American Constitution Society, a progressive organization.
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However, several pro-Trump accounts on social media are using pictures and videos that falsely claim to show large groups of bikers on their way to the inauguration in Washington.
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This photo shared by several Trump supporters, including a popular Daily Mail columnist, that claimed to show Bikers for Trump headed to Washington for the inauguration has been circulating since 2013.
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And a YouTube video titled Bikers for Trump DC Bound 2017 which has more than 50,000 views so far appears to be a video of a bike run for the Marine Toys for Tots program in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Trump himself has fallen for this fake news, judging by his comments at the dinner last night:
As usual, Trump was so incoherent it was hard to tell exactly what he was talking about, but my best guess is that he's seen the photos and video online, the old stuff being recycled with claims these are current photos of his supporters.
See the Buzzfeed article for more info on exactly where the pics/video came from.
And that BuzzFeed link is a useful one to post on social media whenever a Trump supporter uses these old pics for their own fake news.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)was not taken in winter.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)coming to defend Corrupt Trump's barricades, like vigilante security forces.
Although completely fake propaganda put out by whoever...we've seen this before - nothing new - Chicago in '68, anti-war protests in Washington with wholesale crowd incarcerations.
And we know how that ended!
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)I was at Sturgis for the 75th. They got 1M. One million. 80-90% of vehicles on the road for a week were American bikes. 5k is nothing, they had that many parked in Hill City for lunch.
Initech
(100,129 posts)a kennedy
(29,753 posts)My x friend IS on her way to the inauguration now.
radical noodle
(8,016 posts)Although I don't know a lot of bikers, I know two bikers in their 60s who are going for the Bikers For Trump group, although she has been posting anti-Trump stuff for months. Now she's all hopped up to go to DC. Maybe it's more a social thing for them. I can't figure it out.
onethatcares
(16,204 posts)the million semi trucks for trump?
a high of 50 degrees and rain. what a great day for a bike ride
trotsky
(49,533 posts)for the middle of January.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,859 posts)What an idiot.
WhiteTara
(29,730 posts)there is not ONE motorcycle in town or on the road.
There may be 10 or so crazies who show up, not 5,000 or 50,000.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Fall for fake stories.
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)"Packs, Leathers and Vaseline" This sounds like they're planning a group S&M thing at the inauguration.
So it looks like tRump's inauguration is going to be triple XXX rated.... that's certainly fitting.
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)They want us to no-show