President Trump shares video falsely claiming Google didn’t promote his State of the Union addresses

President Trump shares a video claiming Google didn’t promote his State of the Union addresses

(Eye roll.)

As usual, he is a fountain of misinformation. He doesn’t seem to realize that these things can be checked and verified.

Google did promote Trump’s 2018 SOTU address, just as they promoted Obama’s from 2010-2016.

Google did not promote Trump’s 2017 address to the joint session of Congress, just as they did not promote Obama’s 2009 address, since these were not technically SOTU addresses.  In any President’s first year, the man has only been in office a few days when he makes his address to Congress, so it is not a SOTU.

To make matters worse, one of the screenshots in the President’s video was forged. (The supposed date of the screen grab is inconsistent with Google’s design at that time.)

I doubt that he deliberately presented falsified material. It is more likely that either (1) he can’t figure out how to fact-check his claims, or (2) he just doesn’t care whether claims favorable to him are actually true. My guess is the latter, because even a complete chowderhead of a boss with no understanding of the internet would know enough to use a tech-savvy subordinate as a resource. Anybody with a good knowledge of the internet could have debunked that video within 15 minutes, possibly less.