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Time Columnist Posts Quote From Trump That Goes Viral, Then Admits It Was Fake; Trump Responds

John Bickley

The source of a quote attributed to Donald Trump about “Sleepy Joe Biden” and Kim Jong Un that was widely promoted by media figures and Trump critics has acknowledged online that he fabricated the “objectively ludicrous quote.” Trump has since responded by pointing to the incident as another example of “what’s going on in the age of Fake News.”

“President Trump in Tokyo: ‘Kim Jong Un is smarter and would make a better President than Sleepy Joe Biden,'” Time Magazine foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large Ian Bremmer tweeted Sunday.

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