USC Law professor's fake quote from Mick Mulvaney on President Trump goes viral

Here we go again. . .

If there’s one thing Twitter is not good at, it’s satire. Especially when the person issuing the satire has a blue check and is, say, a law school professor. People tend to take things like that seriously. Which is why this tweet is going viral with randoms Twitter users not able to figure out that it was made up:

Mulvaney: “When a 4-year-old who hasn’t napped gets upset by a toy boat, moving the boat out of sight is not an unreasonable thing to do.” https://t.co/WBRpF6ZX4T

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) June 2, 2019

Sigh:

I assumed this was an actual quote

— JP Schnapper-Casteras (@jpscasteras) June 2, 2019

Hours later Professor Kerr cleared it up:

It’s obvious to most people, but as some seem to not get it: my quote above is satire.

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) June 2, 2019

Click here to see all the folks who did not get that this was “obvious” satire at all.

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