Donald Trump tweets a lot, but this tweet did not come from the current US President.
Fake tweet on behalf of Donald Trump
On February 25, 2015, US President Donald Trump is said to have made a strange statement about the Dow Jones Index.
The tweet is fake.
The tweet states that "if the Dow Joans ( Dow Jones Index ) falls 1,000 points in one day, the sitting president should, without argument, be loaded into a very large cannon and shot into the sun at enormous speed .

If the Dow Joans ever falls more than 1000 “points” in a single day the sitting president should be “loaded” into a very big cannon and shot into the sun at TREMENDOUS SPEED! No excuses!
The fact check
As our colleagues at Snopes reported in 2018, it is a fake.
On February 5, 2018, Shaun Usher , owner of the blog " Letters of Note ", posted a screenshot of Donald Trump's alleged tweet on Twitter.
He quickly clarified that it was a fake and ruefully left several tweets that are unfortunately no longer accessible today:
Sweet mother of god. Not for one second did I think people would believe that to be genuine.
— Shaun Usher (@ShaunUsher) February 5, 2018
omg it's everywhere. What have I done?
— Shaun Usher (@ShaunUsher) February 5, 2018
Siri can I be arrested for making a fake tweet
— Shaun Usher (@ShaunUsher) February 5, 2018
[mk_ad]
Usher confirmed to Snopes that it was fake and that he himself was the author of the tweet:
Naively thought it was too ridiculous to be believeable. Says a lot, really. Was going to delete it but it was everywhere within minutes: feels like I need to leave it up in its place of birth.
So Usher assumed that it would be almost ridiculously obvious that the tweet was a fake. He then deleted the tweet, but within minutes it was “everywhere”.
Nonetheless, US President Donald Trump had actually tweeted about the stock market in the past .
Conclusion:
False news spreads extremely quickly. Even if you as the creator assume that a fake will be obvious or immediately understood by other users, this is often not the case.
Thanks to the Internet, such false information reaches a large number of people within a few minutes - which is exactly what Usher's made-up tweet showed.
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