Washington
CNN
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Former President Donald Trump instructed two fictional tales about Oprah Winfrey on Saturday – one among them new, one other he has been telling for at the least 11 years.
Trump’s claims about Winfrey are each trivial. However they’re the most recent on an extended record of latest examples of the Republican presidential nominee delivering vivid but imaginary tales as he once more seeks the nation’s highest workplace.
Winfrey endorsed Trump’s opponent within the presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris, on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August. Winfrey hosted a stay streamed virtual campaign rally for Harris in Michigan on Thursday.
In a social media put up late Saturday night time, 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 actual Oprah.”
Info 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 closing week of the present. Fairly, 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 least 4 instances throughout his presidency that he was on her standard present in its closing week. CNN fact-checked the claim in October 2020 – and famous Trump had been making it since at least 2013.
The precise closing week of the present featured a star-studded arena tribute to Winfrey – which included outstanding celebrities similar to 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.
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 school 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 he or she 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 understand, Oprah didn’t hear the top end result; she by no means labored there. So Kamala simply type of hid below the desk, together with each different reply she gave.”
Info 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. Fairly, 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 huge sister to McDonald’s employee – there may be hope for y’all – district lawyer, a spouse and ‘Momala’ to senator to vp. Please welcome Kamala Harris.”
Harris walked out to applause, hugged Winfrey, they usually started their dialog on non-McDonald’s topics.