claim: u.s. president donald trump tweeted that barack obama "had 8 years to prepair the next president for a pandemic and he failed."
question: did trump tweet that obama ‘had 8 years to prepair the next president for a pandemic’?
origin: in may 2020, facebook users circulated an image of a tweet purportedly posted by u.s. president donald trump on may 11 in which the chief executive criticized his predecessor, barack obama, over the obama administration’s alleged failure to prepare for a pandemic:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “it is unbelievable that president obama criticized me for the coronavirus virus response. he had 8 years to prepair the next president for a pandemic and he failed. i have done a tremendous job. there are still more people alive then dead!” the tweet read.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  although trump and other republicans have (falsely) criticized the obama administration for supposedly not leaving behind a pandemic playbook, this image did not capture a genuine trump tweet. no such tweet exists on the timeline of the @realdonaldtrump twitter account, and neither the factbase or politiwoops databases, which archive tweets by public officials (including deleted tweets), has captured any such matching tweet.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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comment: a false republican talking point was encapsulated in a fake tweet attributed to president donald trump.
summary: facebook users circulated an image of a tweet purportedly posted by u.s. president donald trump on may 11. “it is unbelievable that president obama criticized me for the coronavirus virus response. he had 8 years to prepair the next president for a pandemic and he failed. i have done a tremendous job. there are still more people alive then dead!” the tweet read.