Social media flew right into a frenzy Saturday morning when an obvious press launch from Donald Trump’s marketing campaign referred to as for justice for Peanut the squirrel … nevertheless it was all a hoax, TMZ has realized.
Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung tells us a press release that unfold on X like wildfire was not actual … Trump had not addressed the confiscated and euthanized squirrel controversy.
Within the pretend launch, Trump was quoted as saying partially … “If Peanut could have told them he was from Mexico, they would have sent him on his way and given him a hotel room and a $500 gift card to Buddy Squirrel. Instead, he was taken from his family. Very sad, and a complete waste of resources!”
My angle Peanut and Trump factor is doing fairly first rate too pic.twitter.com/NlPUeCNH99
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Amid the noise, a wave of AI-generated paintings of Trump and Peanut began taking on X … much like when the pet-eating controversy was happening again in September.
TMZ beforehand spoke to the homeowners of a pet squirrel with an enormous social media following … who’re going nuclear on authorities officers in New York … accusing the state of abusing energy and losing taxpayer funds to grab and kill Peanut, all due to some nameless claims.
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Mark Longo and his spouse, Daniela, advised us on “TMZ Live” Friday they won’t relaxation till one thing is completed in regards to the injustice.
Whereas it is technically unlawful to have a pet squirrel in NY, Mark says he wasn’t hiding Peanut — the squirrel has 532,000 followers on IG and over 1,400 posts — and he says nameless complaints about Peanut led state companies to get a search warrant to tear the animal from his residence and kill it.
Mark says Peanut was the cornerstone of his household and his nonprofit animal rescue, P’Nuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary … and he does not know the way he will proceed with out his squirrely good friend.
Whereas the precise Trump has not weighed … the way in which the story has gone viral … it would simply be a matter of time.