To start off I found this meme by googling “Trump memes 2020”, and then the specific terms I used when finding information about the trump meme I Chose itself was “Trump’s bankruptcy”. I was intrigued instantly when I started this assignment because after typing “Trump memes 2020” in my google search engine I was instantly shown a million memes with all different captions that I wanted to investigate, a.k.a Fact check. Some of the captions I came across on the memes were a bit too harsh, but I thought this meme would be interesting to fact check because I personally did not know the truth behind it, and because the meme clearly is throwing shame on Trump. “This meme can be hard to be meaningful evaluated because it’s too superficial to be informative” says David Mikkelson in an article I fact checked on snopes.(“Donald Trump’s Bankruptcies”, 2020 The article was very interesting because it helped me to take a close read at these statements about Trump. The article brought up the issues with the public perception about Trump’s bankruptcy which was very important to know to fully understand this meme and see the truth in it. David Mikkelson says in the article that many people often don’t fully understand the process of bankruptcy or know the distinguishing between personal and corporate bankruptcy. Many people tend to view bankruptcy as “Ha Ha, You ran out of money” is what the article was trying to say and what this meme was trying to say when they make the second sarcastic statement “let me run your economy”.(“Donald Trump’s Bankruptcies”, 2020)This is true, because this meme is intended to be negative towards trump and sarcastic basically saying he is not responsible enough to run our economy due to his track record but after fact checking it was very important to understand the difference between the two types of bankruptcies because trump did not ever file a personal bankruptcy. In addition, According to CNN news, which is a website that I do 100 percent trust,it also reports that “Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy. But he has filed four business bankruptcies, which Bankruptcy.com says makes Trump the top filer in recent decades’ ‘ (Isidore, 2020). I also found information on what they were centered around which one were casinos he used to own in Atlantic City. Isidore says, I found that “They were all Chapter 11 restructurings, which lets a company stay in business while shedding debt it owes to banks, employees and suppliers”(Isidore, 2020). Trump has many many statements to the public about their comments on his bankruptcy. An article I found on snopes.com”, “Examining Donald Trump’s Chapter 11 Bankruptcies”, says that,”Trump responded to the criticism by arguing that businesses often have to file for bankruptcy and that filing for bankruptcy was a financially sound move each time he did it. In fact, during the September 16 Republican debate, Trump observed that “hundreds of companies” have done the same thing”.(“Examining Donald Trump’s Chapter 11 Bankruptcies | ABI”, 2020) Trump does not want America to view his bankruptcies in the wrong light.
Vanessa Mannion 