"Arriving in Belfast, the Biden did not recognize the Prime Minister of Great Britain and pushed the 'boy' away to salute the gray-haired military man," says an April 12, 2023 post from "Spriter," a Twitter account that has previously posted misinformation about the war in Ukraine. The 16-second video received more than 2.3 million views.
"This owns. When greeted at the airport, Joe Biden shoves British PM Rishi Sunak aside to salute a random white guy," says another post sharing the clip from conservative commentator Ian Miles Cheong.
Similar posts racked up views across Twitter and other platforms such as TikTok, spreading as the US president continued an overseas tour in Ireland.
But the allegations that Biden snubbed Sunak as he touched down in Northern Ireland are false, based on a video that was edited to skip over the greeting and handshake between the two men.
"The footage was dishonestly manipulated," White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in an April 13 email to AFP.
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