President-elect Donald Trump’s twitter rant against CNN Monday night appeared to include a retweet of a 16-year-old boy from California.
Trump was railing against the news network over what he claimed was its “support of Hillary Clinton” when he began using retweets to help make his case.
One such retweet was of a post from a user with the handle “@Filibuster,” whose profile suggests is actually a 16-year-old boy named Seth from Beverly Hills.
“@FiIibuster: @jeffzeleny Pathetic — you have no sufficient evidence that Donald Trump did not suffer from voter fraud, shame! Bad reporter,” the retweet stated.
The profile for the @Filibuster account reveals that its user is 16, is a fan of various sports team, including the “Oakland Raiders, LA Angels, Anaheim Ducks and Charlotte Hornets,” while the photo associated with the account shows Trump standing next to a young boy wearing a Trump T-shirt. The profile also references Trump’s campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again.”
@Filibuster, who later pointed out that it was Trump who added the “bad reporter” to the tweet, expressed teen-like excitement shortly after the retweet.
“OMG,” he tweeted, adding, “7,000 notifications…” with an emoji.
Trump’s tirade began around 9:00 p.m. ET Monday, when he took to Twitter to rail against CNN for disputing his claim that he would have won the popular vote earlier this month if it weren’t for “millions of people who voted illegally.”
There is no evidence any widespread voter fraud occurred during the 2016 election and Trump hasn’t produced any to back up his allegation.
But as media organizations, including CNN, have reported that no information exists to confirm Trump’s declaration, the mogul has shot back at them, demanding they produce information to prove that is he who is wrong.
“@HighonHillcrest: @jeffzeleny what PROOF do u have Donald Trump did not suffer from millions of FRAUD votes? Journalist? Do your job! @CNN,” Trump posted Monday night in a retweet of another user.
“@JoeBowman12: @jeffzeleny just another generic CNN part time wannabe journalist !” @CNN still doesn’t get it. They will never learn!” he added in yet another retweet.
“@CNN is so embarrassed by their total (100%) support of Hillary Clinton, and yet her loss in a landslide, that they don’t know what to do,” Trump tweeted an hour later, finally using his own words.
The messages came after CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny said on-air that Trump was a “sore winner” and that the mogul’s claims about voter fraud were “baseless.”
But Zeleny later appeared to take the cyber-targeting of him in stride, tweeting, “Good evening! Have been looking for examples of voter fraud.”
“Please send our way. Full-time journalist here still working,” he posted.
Trump wouldn’t drop the matter when he woke up Tuesday morning, tweeting around 6:00 a.m. ET that he “thought that @CNN would get better after they failed so badly in their support of Hillary Clinton however, since election, they are worse!”
The tweets are just the latest evidence of unhinged social media activity by the President-elect, who throughout the campaign used his Twitter account to attack Republican and Democratic rivals and other critics and retweeted various controversial posts, including an anti-Semitic image that included Hillary Clinton with the words “most corrupt candidate ever” and a red Star of David slapped onto a backdrop of $100 bills.
The image was originally from a white supremacist online forum.
