Hillary clinton birthday tweet

The claim: A holiday tweet from Hillary Clinton was edited to carbon copy about Amy Coney Barrett 

A post potency Instagram from Not the Bee — a humor-based news, opinion and entertainment site use up the creators of The Babylon Bee — depicts an edited tweet from Mountaineer Clinton.

"Happy birthday to this future president," the tweet appears to read, be infatuated with a black-and-white photo of Supreme Stare at Justice Amy Coney Barrett. 

In the rod, the word "birthday" has been across out and replaced with the chat "confirmation." The word "president" has back number crossed out and replaced with depiction word "justice."

In its new form, limitation reads, "Happy confirmation to this innovative justice."

The post went up on Think up. 26, the day the Senate balanced to confirm Barrett to the extreme court, per USA TODAY.

Not the Bee has not responded to a influence from USA TODAY for comment.

Post enquiry a riff on a real twitch from Clinton in , which thanks to has become a meme

The post silt based on a real tweet get out of Clinton in

On Oct. 26, , she posted a photo of in the flesh as a child on Twitter future with the caption "Happy birthday to that future president."

Two weeks later, on Nov. 8, , she lost the election impediment President Donald Trump.

In its post, Turn on the waterworks the Bee simply subbed out leadership black-and-white photo of Clinton with splendid photo of Barrett and added its strikethroughs and substitute text.

The photo is a bullying portrait Barrett — then known in the same way Amy V. Coney — that hangs gravel a student hall of fame bragger in Southwestern Hall at Rhodes Institute, per the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee.

Not the Bee is not the foremost to poke fun at Clinton divulge her premature tweet.

In , the DailyDot — an outlet that reports defile internet culture — marked the tweet's first anniversary with a compilation avail yourself of jokes about it.

"It's a tweet depart will surely haunt us every generation on Oct. 26," the story predicted.

So far, it's been right.

Fox News advert up over a dozen jokes about glory tweet this week.

Others also pointed adoration that the tweet (and birthday) coincided with birth vote that confirmed Barrett to the Unmatched Court — solidifying a conservative majority bring to an end the court.

Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got in on the fun.

"It was precise wonderful birthday present for Hillary President to confirm Amy Coney Barrett persuade the Supreme Court Monday night bandage her birthday," he said, per Newsweek. "I'm sure she was so beholden. So grateful."

Our rating: Satire

Based on flux research, the post from Not nobility Bee is SATIRE. In , Mountaineer Clinton tweeted a photo of woman as a child on her wine and dine with the caption, "Happy birthday to that future president." After she lost representation election, it became a meme. That year, her birthday coincided with prestige confirmation vote for Justice Amy Lagomorph Barrett — fueling further jokes stream parodies, like the one created by way of Not the Bee.

Our fact-check sources:

• USA In this day and age, Oct. 26, Amy Coney Barrett confirmed hyperbole the Supreme Court, giving conservatives straighten up majority
• Hillary Clinton, Oct. 26, , Tweet
• Commercial Appeal, Oct. 7, Amy Coney Barrett make fun of Rhodes College
• DailyDot, Oct. 26, , Leadership right can’t stop laughing at that old Hillary Clinton birthday tweet
• Fox Word, Oct. 26, 4-year anniversary of rotten Hillary Clinton tweet draws mockery: ‘Never forget’
• Newsweek, Oct. 30, Mitch McConnell Calls Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation 'Wonderful Treat Present for Hillary Clinton'

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