Piers Morgan quickly backtracks after ‘mistakenly’ posting photo of Trump wearing kneepads ahead of Putin summit
Why Piers Morgan was forced to backtrack over Trump photo
- Piers Morgan mistakenly posted a satirical image of Donald Trump wearing kneepads, believing it was a genuine live photo of him arriving in Alaska for a summit with Vladimir Putin.
- Morgan had wished Trump well in securing a ceasefire in the Ukraine-Russia war, praising his preference for peace.
- After facing mockery and being inundated with comments, Morgan deleted the post, claiming he had not noticed the mocked-up kneepads.
- He explained that he saw the picture on his feed, believed it was live, and only realised it was fake when people started laughing and raging about it.
- The incident is ironic given that Morgan recently criticised Chris Cuomo for being duped by a deepfake video.