{"id":929350,"date":"2021-10-27T17:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T21:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=929350"},"modified":"2021-10-27T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T21:28:49","slug":"fact-check-did-donald-trump-send-a-tweet-congratulating-ethiopias-prime-minister-for-brave-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-donald-trump-send-a-tweet-congratulating-ethiopias-prime-minister-for-brave-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Donald Trump Send A Tweet Congratulating Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister For \u2018Brave Leadership\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-donald-trump-send-a-tweet-congratulating-ethiopias-prime-minister-for-brave-leadership%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=929350&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wendesen.ayalew\/posts\/4371943629586761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a tweet by former President Donald Trump praising Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for exercising \u201cbrave leadership\u201d in his country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7310332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7310332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trump did not post the supposed tweet.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abiy became prime minister of Ethiopia in 2018 and started his second term in October, Al Jazeera <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/10\/4\/ethiopia-pm-abiy-ahmed-sworn-in-for-new-five-year-term\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. He won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for brokering a peace agreement with neighboring Eritrea that ended 20 years of conflict between the two countries, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-43567007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>. However, Abiy has faced criticism for entering into a civil war with the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front party in late 2020, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA wonderful congratulations to Dr. Abiy Ahmed and his brave leadership in Ethiopia,\u201d Trump purportedly tweeted. \u201cHe is exactly what Africa needs. Bold, fresh, leadership. This is a good thing for the country and a good thing for the people of Ethiopia. My salute to you for real change.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/03\/fact-check-queen-elizabeth-bowing-ethiopian-emperor-haile-selassie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Photo Show Queen Elizabeth Bowing To Former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tweet, which has been circulating online since at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/berhanu.tadesse.14\/posts\/1396182867195260\">2018<\/a>, was not actually sent by Trump. It cannot be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrumparchive.com\/?searchbox=%22Abiy%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump Twitter Archive<\/a>, which preserved all of his tweets, including deleted ones. Twitter ruled some of Trump\u2019s tweets had violated its policy on <a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/rules-and-policies\/glorification-of-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/rules-and-policies\/glorification-of-violence&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635390326554000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFRH9kGqnd15UMgCwj9kLmz8Z70Vg\">glorification of violence<\/a> after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, and the company <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2020\/suspension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permanently suspended<\/a> his account on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/153080620724\/search\/?q=Abiy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/realdonaldtrump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> accounts have also been <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/01\/responding-to-the-violence-in-washington-dc\/\">suspended<\/a> since January based on similar justifications, and the fake tweet\u2019s message doesn\u2019t appear on those platforms. The remark is likewise absent from the Trump White House\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/search\/?s=%22A+wonderful+congratulations+to+Dr.+Abiy+Ahmed%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived website<\/a> preserving speeches and press releases from his term. None of the published statements on Trump\u2019s current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> include the alleged comment about Abiy either.<\/p>\n<p>Trump claimed during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ykx_P7431Zo&amp;t=2506s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 2020 rally<\/a> he had \u201csomething to do\u201d with Abiy receiving the Nobel Prize, according to a video of the speech posted on YouTube by PBS NewsHour. Government officials from Ethiopia and Egypt told the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/3eabb2852e63488f10083874e96e8362\">Associated Press<\/a> Trump was referencing U.S. involvement in dialogue between the two countries about a disputed Nile River dam being built by Ethiopia. The Ethiopian official remarked that Trump \u201creally believes he avoided a war as such \u2026 but that was not the case,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a tweet by former President Donald Trump praising Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for exercising \u201cbrave leadership\u201d in his country.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False Trump did &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}