Claiming that former President donald trump was knighted Queen Elizabeth the second was privately rated as wrong, according to a report from Associated Press.
What happened: Soon after Death of Britain’s monarch on September 8, surfacing claims circulating on social media that Trump was knighted by the Queen.
The AP cited a particular tweet, which in turn included an alleged screenshot from Truth Social claiming the knighthood.
The post from Trump’s social media platform reportedly read, “I haven’t told anyone but she knighted me privately.”
Screenshot of Twitter user Braxton’s profile
Truth Social is part of Trump Media & Technology Group, a company that is set to go public through a merger Digital World Acquisition Corp DWAC.
Another social media outlet traced the claim to the knighthood to a report from MSNBC.
Screenshot of a Twitter profile attributing the knighthood to MSNBC
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Why it matters: The claims are false, the AP said, citing Trump’s Truth Social profile, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and MSNBC’s website.
Trump spokesman Liz Harington said, “It’s not real,” according to the AP.
Former President described the Queen after her death last week at the age of 96 as an “extraordinary” and “great” woman.
While Trump has not been knighted by Britain’s longest-reigning head of state, former President Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush received a Knight of Honour.
Under the United States Constitution, “No person exercising any office of profit or trust among himself shall, without the consent of Congress, accept gifts, emoluments, offices, or titles of any kind from any king, prince, or foreign state.”
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