WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump posted a touching tribute to the memory of American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Al Sharpton, likely mistaking him for the recently deceased Jesse Jackson, disgusted and unsurprised sources confirm.
“Very sad to hear of the passing of Al Sharpton,” Trump posted to his media platform Truth Social. “Even though he was stricken with the crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS, he was once a Very Great Man who did a lot of good things for black people. Although he didn’t do as many things as I did, like how I created MORE BLACK JOBS than EVERY OTHER PRESIDENT in HISTORY after they had been STOLLEN by MIGRANTS, but you’d never hear about that from FAKE NEWS like CNN (I call it the “Clinton News Network!”). Now we have the Golden Age of America upon us. May Al rest in peace!”
Witness Jay Barrett reacted to the posting.
“I mean, whatever at this point, right?” Barrett said. “Of course he confused one black civil rights leader for another and didn’t even bother double-checking before he posted a so-called tribute that he made all about himself. Obviously, this would be a huge deal if we lived in any other time in American history, but we’ll all forget about it in a few days when he does some other mind-numbingly stupid and racist thing. At the very least, he could’ve used proper spelling.”
Political scientist Renna Barber weighed in.
“I don’t even think this is a purposeful distraction from the Epstein files,” Barber mentioned. “I guess it’ll have the same effect, because people will be talking about this for the next day or so, instead of the fact that Trump is mentioned thousands of times in them. I truly think he just mixed up two black civil rights leaders because he’s an idiot and a bigot, but that should not be news to anybody at this point. We should ignore this latest shocking display of racism and stupidity from our president, as I’m sure we can look to other sources for heartfelt and genuine tributes to Reverend Jackson from actual human beings.”
At press time, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had decried the “fake outrage” about Trump’s mistake when asked why he had paid tribute to the wrong person.
