Tim Murtaugh, the director of communications for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, tried to throw shade at Democrats with a photo of Team Trump donning “Keep Iowa Great” hats as they left the state on Tuesday. It didn’t exactly go as planned.
“So much winning,” he tweeted, alongside the photo of the Trump allies on a plane. “Didn’t have time to pay attention, so how’d it go for the Democrats? Everything go off without a hitch?”
This was, of course, a reference to the Democrats’ Iowa caucus debacle involving a faulty app and a major delay in results going public.
But Murtaugh’s plan backfired. Soon enough folks online were roasting the photo, noting the vast majority of the people in the picture were white. Read more…
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