Donald Trump recently retweeted a string of inflammatory anti-Muslim videos and provided no context for the videos or why he decided to retweet them. He retweeted from the account of Jayda Fransen, who is a deputy leader of Britain First, an extremist, far-right political group in the UK.
This New York Times article provides actual context for the videos and shows that the captions are either misleading or blatantly false. The caption that claims to show Muslim migrants beating up a Dutch boy on crutches is shown to be false, according to local officials in a town in the Netherlands. Both boys were born and raised in the Netherlands.
In doing this, Trump managed to offend people all over the political spectrum in the U.S. and received backlash from British politicians.
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