Trump retweets bot that replaces key words in his tweets with ‘shark’

Amid a flurry of retweets commending conservative radio host Mark Levin’s clash Sunday morning with Fox News’s Ed Henry, President Trump retweeted a bot that substitutes the word “shark” for key words in his tweets and retweets.

During the segment, Levin accused Henry of asking questions that were “not honest” regarding the legality of Trump’s discussions with Ukrainian leaders about former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Since it aired this morning, Trump, in addition to tweeting his own praise of Levin, has retweeted several other accounts lauding Levin or blasting Henry.

{mosads}One of those accounts, “Trump But About Sharks,” rewrites the president’s tweets to insert references to sharks, an apparent reference to Trump’s widely known dislike of the toothy fish.

“A Sunday Morning; Amen Mark Levin, Preach Brother! You shut down Ed Henry and the Pro Shark Media with the fac[ts],” the retweet states, rewriting the original tweet, which referred to the “fake news.”

RT @BulldawgDerek: @foxandfriends A Sunday Morning; Amen Mark Levin, Preach Brother! You shut down Ed Henry and the Pro Shark Media with the fac…

— Trump But About Sharks (@tbasharks) September 29, 2019

The president has retweeted a bot that takes his tweets and retweets and rewrites them to be about sharks pic.twitter.com/jiobGi0Jem

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) September 29, 2019