The claim: Lara Trump said 'no one can stop this Titanic' after Celine Dion objected to music use at campaign rally
An Aug. 11 Threads post ( direct link , archive link ) purports to share a quote from Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump about Canadian musician Celine Dion.
"SHOULD SOMEONE TELL HER?" reads the post. "A defiant Lara Trump: 'We don't give a damn about a letter from Non-American Celine Dion. I'll sing the song myself. No one can stop this Titanic."
The post references a statement Dion issued objecting to "My Heart Will Go On" from the film "Titanic" being used at a campaign rally held by former President Donald Trump.
The post was liked more than 20,000 times in three days.
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Lara Trump did not say this, an RNC spokesperson said. The quote originated on a satirical social media account.
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A video of Dion performing the theme song from the 1997 James Cameron film was played during a Donald Trump campaign rally held Aug. 9 in Bozeman, Montana.
A statement posted to the singer's social media accounts the next day said Dion did not support the "unauthorized usage" of the video and included the cheeky kicker, "And really, THAT song?"
But no credible news reports support the claim that Lara Trump, who became RNC co-chair in March and is Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, made the remarks attributed to her in the Threads post. There are no credible news reports about her making such a comment.
Elizabeth Pipko , a spokesperson for the RNC, also told USA TODAY that Lara Trump "did not say the quote in question."
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The quote wrongly attributed to Lara Trump appeared to originate on the X account @NotHoodlum , whose bio and posting history indicate the user regularly shares satirical content. The X user made the post on Aug. 10 , a day before the Threads post was shared.
The Threads post doesn't mention the satirical origin of the quote and is an example of what could be called "stolen satire," where posts created as satire and presented that way originally are reposted in a way that makes them appear to be legitimate news. As a result, readers of the second-generation post are misled, as was the case here.
The Threads user who shared the post did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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