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Sophia Ankel
Apr 06, 2019
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President Trump's favourite news channel, Fox News, is just as obsessed with the Mexico border as he is - and now they're getting hilariously roasted for it.
Yesterday, a reporter for Fox, Lawrence Jones III, went to the border wearing a tiny bulletproof vest and got himself into the middle of a meme storm.
Jones was in Laredo, Texas, touring the area with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials, interviewing them about crime in the area for a story for Sean Hannity's programme. He tweeted a photo of himself wearing what looked like a small bulletproof vest with a CBP patch, and naturally the jokes started rolling in.
Many people called him out for wearing a vest in the first place, with activists and journalist coming out to say that they report in the same area every day and have never once worn a vest there.
@LawrenceBJones3 @FoxNews Dude. Why are you wearing a bulletproof vest. YOU ARE NOT IN A WAR ZONE. Here I am report… https://t.co/ROTEPIK0Fv— Lisa Guerrero 💃🏽 (@Lisa Guerrero 💃🏽) 1554405426
@LawrenceBJones3 @FoxNews I covered the border in #ElPaso Sector for 2yrs. This is what 5ft tall me wore on the bor… https://t.co/6mXRRVR6YU— Claudia Tristán (@Claudia Tristán) 1554408379
@tristan_claudia @LawrenceBJones3 @FoxNews Done a lot of stories w/CBP in my career. Also grew up on the border in… https://t.co/8CZUIxOcOx— Mireya Villarreal (@Mireya Villarreal) 1554434993
This is totally ridiculous. I have never once worn a bulletproof vest at the border, nor has CBP ever asked me to… https://t.co/spRCNz1eL1— Jacob Soboroff (@Jacob Soboroff) 1554394462
Others took the opportunity to make hilarious memes, photoshopping on different items onto the vest.
@DustinGiebel @LawrenceBJones3 @FoxNews No time for hatred on #NationalBurritoDay https://t.co/Qm07CmG0QE— Fuzz Martin (@Fuzz Martin) 1554391737
@LawrenceBJones3 @FoxNews Hey @LawrenceBJones3 you want to borrow this one? https://t.co/uqV9W300Fs— José Andrés (@José Andrés) 1554387109
Others were just laughing at how ridiculous it all seemed, pointing to Fox New's usual tendency of trying to create fear mongering around immigration.
@LawrenceBJones3 @FoxNews Lmaoooooooo I didn’t know they made tac vests in extra smedium.— Dylan Park (@Dylan Park) 1554388722
@quail_robert @jacobsoboroff @birdsee44018322 Though I agree it's not a bulletproof vest, it's still propaganda sin… https://t.co/9HRIL6sVFv— Lucas (@Lucas) 1554399345
@jacobsoboroff it's a tactical vest for holding things, not a bulletproof vest. It's like a man purse for your chest!— Tim (@Tim) 1554394728
@jacobsoboroff it's a tactical vest for holding things, not a bulletproof vest. It's like a man purse for your chest!— Tim (@Tim) 1554394728
@LawrenceBJones3 @FoxNews https://t.co/gFu01RDrr0— Dylan Park (@Dylan Park) 1554389628
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