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Sanjana Varghese
Dec 28, 2020
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Former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has been called out after he appeared to tweet a year old photo of a pizza he ate in 2019 as though it were new.
Walker was previously the governor of Wisconsin for eight years, up until 2019. He’s a Republican – he opposes abortion, same-sex marriage and has said that securing the US border against illegall immigration is one of the US’ highest priorities – and was even briefly a candidate for nomination for the Presidency in 2016. Walker even withdrew his support for Trump in 2016 after he criticised a federal judge, but has since come around as a supporter.
But Walker is facing backlash after what may seem like an innocent tweet – a close cropped, blurry photo of a pizza with sausages on it (it doesn’t exactly look very appetizing). The pizza was from San Giorgio Pizzeria Napoletana, a business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Walker added that it was important to support local restaurants and small businesses.
But Twitter sleuths soon figured out that the photo – which was weirdly cropped – was actually from a year ago, which Walker had also tweeted.
People lie about the dumbest things. Here is Republican @ScottWalker (who has been caught lying before) posting a p… https://t.co/4mUg8D2V6o— Brandon Friedman (@Brandon Friedman) 1609044074
He tweeted the same photo of a birthday dinner with two of his sons – in October of 2019.
People pointed out that it wasn’t necessary to lie about this.
Many people are commenting on the pizza itself, but it is important to remember that Scott Walker is not exactly a… https://t.co/atSiqcIM50— Don Moynihan (@Don Moynihan) 1609044117
@donmoyn @thor_benson @IFNAlphaMale They lie about the weirdest shit.— Roger (@Roger) 1609043934
@JackJackington @donmoyn @IFNAlphaMale https://t.co/Pdmlw3RDFz— Jennifer Oldfield (@Jennifer Oldfield) 1609049063
Others said it was worse than it seemed, and that Walker seems to have a history of lying in public.
@donmoyn @IFNAlphaMale It's actually worse than sad: he's intentionally faking "eating out at local businesses" to… https://t.co/lOZ8UwUlcB— carson disavows kirktober (@carson disavows kirktober) 1609044514
Here he is earlier this year pretending to lose his internet connection under tough questioning from Anderson Cooper https://t.co/sAgcfAWLJA— Brandon Friedman (@Brandon Friedman) 1609044281
@donmoyn @IFNAlphaMale Your missing a pivotal one. The hot dog bun with no hot dog in it while he's clearly hammere… https://t.co/uXblZp9ecb— Ed Vocke (@Ed Vocke) 1609046505
Some people just made fun of him.
@BFriedmanDC @ScottWalker Why you gotta hate on him I also had a great pizza tonight with my buddies! https://t.co/OQtB1apevi— Craibzies ☭ oh I mean 🇺🇲 (@Craibzies ☭ oh I mean 🇺🇲) 1609050782
@BFriedmanDC @ggreeneva @ScottWalker Maybe the real pizza was the lessons we learned along the way.— Anastasia Golovashkina (@Anastasia Golovashkina) 1609045131
@BFriedmanDC @ScottWalker He must just have a compulsion to tweet pics of shitty looking food every so often. https://t.co/1INfabvdkk— Mead🤨ws! ✈️ (@Mead🤨ws! ✈️) 1609045948
@BFriedmanDC @ScottWalker Weirdest thing about this is that's the most unappetizing pizza I've ever seen.— the aforementioned w (@the aforementioned w) 1609049772
@TachyonTransmi2 @BFriedmanDC @ScottWalker Should be. It is a year old.— Nathan Salwen (@Nathan Salwen) 1609058666
Walker did eventually respond – saying that he didn’t take a photo last night and so used an old photo instead. However, he did confirm that his family had gone to San Giorgio.
My family & I went to @SanGiorgioMKE last night. Great food. I used an old photo since we didn't take one last nigh… https://t.co/N2u8hPSgSW— Scott Walker (@Scott Walker) 1609081668
To summarize: Do: support your local businesses, esp. great restaurants Don't: do it by pretending to be eating out… https://t.co/ZPQsQZEuzw— Don Moynihan (@Don Moynihan) 1609045866
While no one doubts that it’s important to support local businesses in the middle of everything else happening, perhaps it’s better to actually do it – as opposed to tweeting-year-old photos and pretending that they’re new.
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