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ybbor

(1,733 posts)
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 03:36 PM 20 hrs ago

"John Barron" called CSPAN Friday

Last edited Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:07 AM - Edit history (1)

(Apparently it was a spoof, but still, the fact that for a minute we could imagine it’s true is pretty sad)

Just read on HuffPost that a caller who sounded an awful lot like TSF, and going by John Barron, TSF’s pseudonym from the past, read SCOTUS the riot act. It would be hilarious, ok it kinda is, if he didn’t have the nuclear codes.

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"John Barron" called CSPAN Friday (Original Post) ybbor 20 hrs ago OP
He's so dumb that he probably also believes that if he puts on a fake mustache nobody will recognize him. Dave Bowman 20 hrs ago #1
He's some_of_us_are_sane 20 hrs ago #2
Turns out it was not Trump True Dough 17 hrs ago #3
Thanks for the update MustLoveBeagles 16 hrs ago #5
Thanks True Dough ybbor 12 hrs ago #7
Stupid IzzaNuDay 17 hrs ago #4
dump isn't very bright MustLoveBeagles 16 hrs ago #6
Seems to have been a fraud--- Jack Valentino 12 hrs ago #8

Dave Bowman

(6,988 posts)
1. He's so dumb that he probably also believes that if he puts on a fake mustache nobody will recognize him.
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 03:46 PM
20 hrs ago

True Dough

(26,247 posts)
3. Turns out it was not Trump
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 06:53 PM
17 hrs ago

CSPAN
@cspan

Because so many of you are talking about Friday’s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as “John Barron,” we want to put this to rest: it was not the president. The call came from a central Virginia phone number and came while the president was in a widely covered, in-person White-House meeting with the governors. Tune into C-SPAN for the actual president at the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night.

ybbor

(1,733 posts)
7. Thanks True Dough
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 11:46 PM
12 hrs ago

Unfortunately, it’s a shame that we could even imagine our president doing such a sadly, ridiculous act.

But thanks for providing the info!

✌🏻

Jack Valentino

(4,743 posts)
8. Seems to have been a fraud---
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:00 AM
12 hrs ago

I didn't hear the actual thing myself---

although the perpetrator, as I read from news quotes,
seemed to have gotten the 'Trump thing'
about not being able to finish a single complete sentence
just about right !!!

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