Former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney started trending on Twitter after his daughter Liz Cheney uploaded a photo of him wearing a mask. Liz Cheney, who is a GOP representative from Wyoming, captioned the post with the sentence: Dick Cheney says WEAR A MASK along with the hashtag #realmenwearmasks.
The Cheneys concern for the health of their compatriots backfired, however. The post received almost 13,000 comments, most of which were highly negative. First users spoke about the former vice presidents push for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which ultimately led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and destabilised the Middle East. Back in 2003, Cheney insisted that Baghdad possessed weapons of mass destruction and had collaborative ties with Al-Qaeda, claims that were later disproven by investigation.
Netizens then reminded Liz Cheney that her father supported torture during the questioning of terror suspects.
Poster Comment:
Tony Heller @Tony__Heller
Jun 26
Replying to @Liz_Cheney:
Real men look at data, and see that COVID deaths in the US are rapidly declining towards zero. I'm very proud that so few people here in Wyoming fall for your fear mongering.