It started as a xenophobic local rumor, became a right-wing talking point on Elon Musk’s X, and burst onto prime-time television when Donald Trump uttered it live onstage in Tuesday’s ...

Trump went on to accuse Haitian migrants of 'eating pets' in Springfield, Ohio, an unsubstantiated claim that first appeared ...

Trump asserted that these immigrants were consuming local pets, a statement quickly debunked by officials in Ohio Springfield ... the opportunity to share memes featuring characters like Homer ...

The Eating Pets meme refers to false claims made by Donald Trump concerning Haitian immigrants eating pet cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio. The Eating Pets Meme: An Old Dog Whistle Learns New Tricks ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — In this city thrust unwillingly into the white hot center of Donald Trump’s immigration wars, conspiratorial fervor lept from internet memes into the humdrum tasks of ...

Among the heaping mount of memes from the 2024 presidential ... about Trump's baseless claim that people in Springfield, Ohio are eating people's pets. In case you need further proof that it's ...

Rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, stemmed from secondhand ... Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American ...

Springfield is a national talking point after Trump claimed immigrants were eating pets there. Locals told BI the claims had created a tense and, some say, dangerous atmosphere in the Ohio town ...

As campaigns increasingly communicate via meme, cat videos are outranking ... claims that Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating pet cats in Springfield, Ohio, had begun circulating on ...

But he also said in another follow-up post: "Keep the cat memes flowing ... Trump said that in Springfield, Ohio, Haitian immigrants are "eating the pets of the people that live there." ...

On Tuesday, Vance posted on X that his senatorial office in Ohio had “received many inquiries from actual residents of Springfield who’ve said their neighbors’ pets or local wildlife were ...

In a recent debate, Donald Trump alleged that undocumented Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were consuming local pets. This assertion ... opportunity to share memes featuring characters ...