Donald Trump is dead,’ claims to a hacked X account belonging to the former US President’s son.
One of the tweets from Donald Trump Jr.’s verified account on Wednesday read, “My father, Donald Trump, has passed away.” The tweets from the compromised account were later deleted, but not before one of them had more than 140k views.
The eldest son of former President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., had a series of tweets made from his X (formerly Twitter) account on Wednesday. One of the offensive tweets included a phony death announcement for former US President Donald Trump. Another tweet addressed Joe Biden, the current president.
On September 20, the posts were shared on Donald Trump Jr.’s verified X profile. I’m sorry to announce that my father Donald Trump has gone away, according to one of the posts that received over 140k views. In 2024, I’ll be a candidate for president.
Many X users were alarmed by the news, despite the fact that many believed the account had been hacked.
The hacking incident sparked worries about the misuse of social media platforms for disseminating false information and encouraging negativity in addition to exposing weaknesses in the microblogging platform’s online security.
Although the posts were quickly taken down, the incident served as a sobering reminder of the difficulties in protecting digital identities and information in the contemporary era.
Son of Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana Trump, Donald Trump Jr. has been vocal on social media and in the political sphere, using these platforms to share his ideas and thoughts.
According to the former U.S. president’s son’s hacked X account, “Donald Trump is dead.”
On September 20, Donald Trump Jr.’s account on X, the website that replaced Twitter, was momentarily hacked. During that time, a number of nasty tweets were sent, including one that falsely claimed his father, former president Donald Trump, had passed away.
I regret to inform you of the passing of my father, Donald Trump. At 8:25 a.m., Donald Trump Jr.’s account sent its first message, which stated, “I will be running for president in 2024.”
At 8:46 a.m., more than 20 minutes after the false death announcement, the 77-year-old former president issued an unrelated message on his own X rival, Truth Social, demonstrating his continued existence, according to the New York Post.
It didn’t take long for a string of obviously hacked messages to appear on Donald Jr.’s account, including one declaring that “North Korea is about to get smoked” and another purporting to be from Donald Jr. in which he claimed to have “some interesting messages with Jeffrey Epstein” more than four years after the pedophile’s murder in his Manhattan jail.
He also tweeted “F-k Joe Biden,” calling him a “stupid ass,” and that Richard Heart, a prominent figure in the cryptocurrency industry who was accused of stealing $12 million from investors, is innocent.
The account has now been reinstated and the tweets have been erased.
Early on Wednesday, a request for comment from The Trump Organization was not immediately answered, according to the newspaper.