Trump retweets 'Dad' photo — that's actually of U.K.'s new left-wing leader

It looks as if Donald Trump has been tricked again.

On Saturday morning, the GOP presidential candidate retweeted what appeared to be a picture of a supporter’s father – but was really Jeremy Corbyn, a far-left politician who had just been named as the United Kingdom’s new Labour Party leader.


The original tweet came from @HamishP95, whose Twitter bio says he’s a Labour Party member and “probably professional troll.” He tweeted to Trump that “My Dad is thinking of voting for the first time ever for you,” upon which Trump replied “Great.”

The image that accompanied the tweet was actually of the silver-haired, 66-year-old Corbyn, whose runaway win Saturday turned the Labour Party sharply to the left and was considered one of the biggest political shakeups for the U.K. in recent history.

It wasn’t the first time that Trump was seemingly duped on Twitter. In July, according to The Guardian, while Trump was embroiled in controversy over criticizing Sen. John McCain’s time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Trump retweeted a message of support that appeared to be from the son of a Vietnam veteran. The photo in the tweet was actually of Jeffrey MacDonald, who was convicted of murder in 1979 for killing his pregnant wife and two daughters.

