Politics

Liberals fall for fake story about Trump watching ‘The Gorilla Channel’ 17 hours per day

A lot of excerpts of Michael Wolff’s anti-Trump book, “Fire and Fury,” are reportedly making the rounds on the Internet, but not all of them are true.  Some are not only fictitious (as is a good part of the book, according to some reports), but they actually quite hilarious.  One “excert” making the rounds claims Trump wanted to watch “The Gorilla Channel.”  Of course, it wasn’t true, but liberals fell for it anyway.

According to Ben Shapiro, Twitter user @pixelatedboat tweeted out a parody segment supposedly lifted from Wolff’s book.

According to Shapiro:

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

There was only one problem. People took the story seriously.

As @pixelatedboat tweeted, the whole purpose of his story was to show how ridiculous Wolff’s coverage was — that he had merely retold random, wild anecdotes in an attempt to sell books, without any effort to corroborate those anecdotes. Instead, people just took the parody seriously, thinking it was real. That’s because confirmation bias drives too many people to believe stories that are too good to disbelieve. Thus, official #Resistance leader Scott Dworkin tweeted:

Trump-Russia conspiracy theorist Eric Garland also fell for the hoax:

According to The Hill:

Several major and verified accounts on Twitter shared the parody as if it were an actual excerpt from the book, while others speculated whether it was real. Some fell for the parody and believed Trump had demanded another “gorilla channel.” Other Twitter users said they thought the the fake “gorilla channel” excerpt actually was in Wolff’s book, but was untrue.

At press time on Friday, “Gorilla Channel” was trending on Twitter, with more than 16,000 tweets.

One person asked:

MSNBC admitted on one post that the story is fake, but anti-Trump propagandist Joy Reid claimed: “There may be a reason that story would ring true.”

Here’s video, if you can stand it:

Shapiro said that “people will believe anything that’s convenient for them to believe, particularly about President Trump.”

Worse yet, he said, there can never be a real Gorilla Channel…

Related:

If you haven’t checked out and liked our Facebook page, please go here and do so.  And be sure to check out our new MeWe page here.

If you appreciate independent conservative reports like this, please go here and support us on Patreon.

And if you’re as concerned about online censorship as we are, go here and order this book:

Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad
Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad – Source: Author (used with permission)

Joe Newby

A 10-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Joe ran for a city council position in Riverside, Calif., in 1991 and managed successful campaigns for the Idaho state legislature. Co-author of "Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad," Joe wrote for Examiner.com from 2010 until it closed in 2016 and his work has been published at Newsbusters, Spokane Faith and Values and other sites. He now runs the Conservative Firing Line.

Related Articles

Our Privacy Policy has been updated to support the latest regulations.Click to learn more.×