Trump recently made news by saying he’d bring the bust of Winston Churchill back to the Oval Office. Liberals wrongly assumed that meant he would get rid of the MLK bust Obama placed in the office.
Some liberals in media like Zeke Miller of Time Magazine jumped the gun and reported FAKE NEWS on the subject but Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer called him out and got an apology. On his first day!
Twitchy reports:
As we told you earlier, President Trump returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office, fulfilling a promise he made during the campaign. But the move set off a wave of speculation over what happened to the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. that President Obama had moved into the Oval Office to replace Winston.
TIME reporter Zeke Miller initially tweeted that the MLK Jr. bust have been removed entirely, but his first report was wrong:
Correction: The MLK bust is still in the Oval Office. It was obscured by an agent and door.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 21, 2017
Tweeting again: wh aide confirms the MLK bust is still there. I looked for it in the oval 2x & didn't see it. My apologies to my colleagues
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 21, 2017
Other reporters who believed Miller were also forced to eat crow:
An aide tells @ZekeJMiller that the MLK bust remains in the Oval Office in addition to the Churchill bust. https://t.co/EmhWNW8MES
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 21, 2017
deleting incorrect tweet about removal of MLK bust
— Jared Rizzi (@JaredRizzi) January 21, 2017
Tweeting again: wh aide confirms the MLK bust is still there. I looked for it in the oval 2x & didn't see it. My apologies to my colleagues
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 21, 2017
Apology accepted https://t.co/dYqwRv1p0f
— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) January 21, 2017
Thanks to White House Chief of Staff for this wonderful picture of the MLK bust in the oval pic.twitter.com/Lzgj6RljvI
— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) January 21, 2017
Maybe the media should be a little more careful and not always assume the worst.
Just a thought.
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