C-SPAN says caller that sounded like Trump wasn’t the president
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After a man with a speech pattern similar to the president's called C-SPAN using a pseudonym Trump once favored, speculation spread.
Television network C-SPAN put rumors to rest after a caller who sounded suspiciously like President Donald Trump ignited a firestorm of speculation.
"Because so many of you are talking about Friday’s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as 'John Barron,' we want to put this to rest: it was not the president," C-SPAN said in a social media post on on Sunday, Feb. 22. It went on to say that the call came from a central Virginia phone number and came while the president was meeting with governors at the White House.
"Tune into C-SPAN for the actual president at the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night," it concluded.
Jokes and theories flooded the internet over the weekend after a man, identified as a Republican from Virginia, called into the network on Friday, Feb. 20, with comments about the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Trump's tariffs.
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