President Trump shares false news story on his Facebook page

President Donald Trump has been a vocal critic of "fake news," but now the president is under fire for sharing an apparently false news story on his own Facebook page.

First, it's important to clarify that President Trump has co-opted the term "fake news" from its definition of a fabricated post designed to look like a legitimate story in order to mislead for political or financial gain, to mean simply any news he doesn't like. He's even gone so far as to repeatedly call CNN and other legitimate news outlets fake news organizations.

But now, it appears the president is sharing ACTUAL fake news with his followers.

The article he shared claims Kuwait has imposed its own Trump-inspired ban on travelers and immigrants from five Muslim-majority countries. The story by "Al Bawaba" is riddled with typos, and it claims, "Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, Pakistanis and Afghans" will not be able to enter the country while the ban is in place.

President Trump, or whoever runs his social media, posted it to Facebook on Thursday along with the caption, "Smart!"

However, Kuwait denies the existence of any such ban. Kuwait's foreign ministry "categorically denies these claims and affirms that these reported nationalities ... have big communities in Kuwait and enjoy full rights," according to Reuters.



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As of Sunday morning, the post has not been taken down. It has garnered more than 250,000 likes and has been shared more than 68,000 times.