On June 31, President Donald Trump posted a conspiracy theory on his social media platform, Truth Social. His post claimed that Former President Joe Biden was “executed in 2020.” Trump also reposted and shared another profile’s claims that Biden was replaced with clones and robots.

Since Trump’s return to the White House, he has consistently targeted Biden for his policies and implied that Biden was covering up his cancer diagnosis.

The president has frequently shared conspiracy theories. In mid-May, Trump met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, where Trump claimed that white South African farmers were currently experiencing a genocide. To support his claims, he showed an image that displayed health workers lifting body bags. Trump claimed that these were white farmers who were being buried. However, the image Trump showed was taken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, not South Africa.

The image that Trump had used as evidence was taken from a Reuters video documenting the scenes following a fight between Congolese troops and the Congolese Revolutionary Army.

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Trump has surrounded himself with officials who also support conspiracy theories. Tesla CEO and former head of DOGE, Elon Musk, has floated the South African white genocide theory, and one suggesting that the gold reserves within Fort Knox could’ve been stolen.

The Washington Post found that Trump made a total of 30,573 false claims during his first term in office. On the day before the 2020 presidential election, Nov. 2, Trump had made 503 false claims.

Trump’s false claims came one day after Biden had made his first public statement following his cancer diagnosis. In his remarks, Biden said that he was “feeling good” and believed that he was able to beat the cancer.

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Article by Sherry Chen

Sherry Chen is a uPolitics writer.

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