Republican candidate Donald Trump has unwittingly retweeted a famous Mussolini quote, culled from a dummy account set up with well-known lines from the Italian dictator.
Instantly stirring up anger through various social media channels, the tweet read: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
"@ilduce2016: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” – @realDonaldTrump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 28, 2016
Trump was set up by news site Gawker, who created a fake account called ‘ilduce2016’, named after Mussolini’s dictatorship until ’43.
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The news you care about, reported on by the people who care about you.On Sunday, the site fessed up to being responsible for the Twitter acount “to see if @realDonaldTrump was dumb enough to re-tweet it.”
Well.
h/t: Gawker
