Foreign Policy expert Ian Bremmer, who is also a president and founder of Eurasia Group and a New York University political science professor, stirred controversy for tweeting a fake quote attributed to President Donald Trump, then saying that it was “plausible” the President would say it, Fox News informed.
“Kim Jong Un is smarter and would make a better President than Sleepy Joe Biden,” Bremmer wrote in the now-deleted tweet, attributing it to Trump.
Bremmer was called out on Twitter by many who questioned his reasoning.
Canadian journalist Daniel Dale tweeted: “This quote is fabricated. As often, no idea what Bremmer is doing.”
Geopolitics analyst Ankit Panda tweeted: “This is not a real Trump quote if you’re basing your views of reality based on Ian Bremmer’s tweets in 2019, please reconsider.”
Bremmer later also tweeted: “This is objectively a completely ludicrous quote. And yet kinda plausible. Especially on twitter, where people automatically support whatever political position they have. That’s the point.”
Fox News contacted both the expert Bremmer and the NYU professor for comment but did not receive an answer.
Earlier this month, Bremmer claimed that no U.S. administration since the collapse of the communism in Eastern Europe has ever been so directly hostile to Russian interests than the Trump administration.
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