As US stocks plunged more than 4% in a highly volatile trading on Monday, President Donald Trump was delivering a speech on tax reform in Ohio. Trump, who has been taking credit for the rise in stocks, was silent on latest Wall Street massacre.
However, a screenshot of a tweet attributed to him was going viral on social media.
"If the Dow Joans ever falls more than 1000 "points" in a Single Day the sitting president should be loaded into a very big cannon and Shot into the sun at TREMENDOUS SPEED! No excuses!," the tweet, purportedly tweeted at 12:27 am, February 25, 2015 read.
The screenshot was widely shared and spread all over Twitter.
As Dow Jones stumbled 1,175.21 points (4.60%) to close at 24,345.75, Twitterati were amused to find that an old tweet aimed at President Obama had come to haunt Trump.
The tweet by Shaun Usher, who was the first person to share the tweet, has 15,821 retweets and counting.
Some expressed surprise that they could not find the original tweet on Trump's Twitter account and came to realise that it was fake.
Expressing shock over the fact that his tweet had gone viral, Usher soon clarified that he did not "think people would believe that to be genuine."
Many, on realisation deleted the tweet from their timeline but many still believe the tweet to be true.
Twitter users often dig through Trump's old tweets to find take aim at his policies or his statement that contradict his past stances.
Trump is often found taking credit for the economy and rising stock market.
He wrote on Twitter on January 7, "The Stock Market has been creating tremendous benefits for our country in the form of not only Record Setting Stock Prices, but present and future Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. Seven TRILLION dollars of value created since our big election win!"
"Dow just crashes through 25,000. Congrats! Big cuts in unnecessary regulations continuing," he wrote on January 4.
He had sent similar tweets for months.
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