Purported Tweet in Which Trump Threatened Military Action Against Mexico Is a Hoax Dan Evon - Snopes
go to original December 28, 2016

Origin: On 25 December 2016, the website BigNewsStories.com reported that Donald Trump posted a message to Twitter the night before, threatening military action against Mexico:



First, there is no record of this statement ever having existed, whether in retweet form (despite the tweet appearing to have been retweeted several hundred times) or on the Sunlight Foundation's archive of his deleted tweets. Second, there are multitudes of sites that allow pranksters to create fake social media posts from celebrities, and this is not the first time that a hoax tweet from Donald Trump has circulated on social media.

In December 2016, one fake post appeared to announce that Nickelback was headlining during Trump's inauguration, and another hoax tweet purported to threaten actor Alec Baldwin for his performance on "Saturday Night Live."

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