‘Propaganda Barbie’: Devastating ad rips Kayleigh McEnany’s lies on COVID and Twitter piles on

09/23/2020 10:22 am ET • Mackenzie Zlatos

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Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, stated in a heated moment today to CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta that Trump was “telling the truth” when it came to the COVID-19 death rate.

“The President is telling people the truth!” she said, when Acosta asked, “At 200,000 deaths, shouldn’t the president be telling people the truth about this virus at his rallies?”

.@acosta: What do you say to Americans who blame this administration for 200,000 Covid deaths?

McENANY: The fact that we have come nowhere near 2 million deaths is a testament to this president taking immediate action pic.twitter.com/Y5rHBLanG6

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2020

Fed up with the constant stream of lies, MeidasTouch slammed McEnany in their new video: #ByeKaleigh. Twitter ate it up.

Calling her out

Kayleigh McEnany standing behind a podium

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Acosta went on CNN and said, “We’ve seen this almost from the very beginning of this pandemic, and that is the president of the United States and the White House Press Secretary, like previous White House press secretaries, will just flat out lie to the American people. And the president did that last night at that rally in Ohio when he was saying it virtually affects nobody.”

Kayleigh SmackaNinny is on CNN lying her dyed blond ass off. Acosta is holding her feet to the fire. She's fumbling and getting herself in a snit… get her Acosta!!

— Swamp Witch (@SwampWi68671152) September 22, 2020

Kayleigh Mc-A-Ninny tries to explain to Jim Acosta that trump didn't say what we all heard him say, that COVID-19 "affects virtually nobody" except for the 200,000 dead.pic.twitter.com/pJDCxNav8G

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) September 22, 2020

We all heard it

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On the evening of September 21, Trump stood up at a rally in Ohio and said, “It affects elderly people, elderly people with heart problems, and other problems. If they have other problems, that’s what it really affects, that’s it.” He continued, “You know, in some states thousands of people, nobody young. Below the age of 18, like nobody. They have a strong immune system. Who knows? Take your hat off to the young, because they have a hell of an immune system.”

Jim Acosta: What do you say to Americans who blame this administration for the 200k lives lost to COVID-19?

McEnany: At least it wasn’t 2 million 🤷‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/jX4v9SfBKV

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) September 22, 2020

Acosta made the point: “He diminishes the threat posed by the virus. He holds rallies where people don’t wear masks and don’t participate in social distancing because of what he says to his own supporters.”

McEnany could be shown the actual footage of #TraitorTrump saying exactly what Acosta says he said and she would still claim he's taking *45 out of context…or he was joking…or he was being sarcastic.

NEVER does she claim he has any empathy for 200K+ dead Americans. https://t.co/IZkcTGfJXJ

— D Villella ❄️ (@dvillella) September 22, 2020

#ByeKaleigh is trending

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Acosta wasn’t the only one who decided to go after McEnany. The media group MeidasTouch also took a stab with a new viral video that had #BYEKALEIGH trending on Tuesday night.

As a public affairs pro, it’s difficult watching kayleigh.

Her communication ethics are garbage and she fails to present the comings and goings of the White House.

To kayleigh, the @PressSec is a promotional communications platform, which it is not intended to be.#ByeKayleigh

— Maine Coon Cats (@MaineCoonCatsOH) September 23, 2020

WATCH:

The group says the video is meant to expose “the deadly lies of Trump’s minister of propaganda.”

‘Nobody will hire you’

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Users were happy to point out that McEnany better make the most of her current position because her post-Trump job prospects are not looking too good.

Hey, @PressSec. You see this article? #ByeKayleigh trends as Internet calls POTUS press secy filthy liar: ‘After Trump's gone, nobody will hire you’ https://t.co/J9bZEeoQuY

— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 23, 2020

Me throwing her book of lies, I mean talking points #Byekayleigh pic.twitter.com/WaDw11kBqa

— Don’t call me Anita❤️ (@funicelloRN) September 23, 2020