When the false information relayed by Trump about migrants “eating cats” becomes an anthem on the networks

“In Springfield, Ohio, they eat dogs, the people who come (migrants, editor’s note), they eat cats. They eat the pets of the inhabitants. This is what is happening in our country,” Donald Trump said during his debate against his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, on September 10. The false information of a racist nature because it targeted supposedly foreign people has inflamed the networks.

First of all, the fact that the town in question is called Springfield quickly got Hank Azaria, the famous voice of The Simpsons, whose animated series takes place in an imaginary town called Springfield, reacting. Hank Azaria posted a parody video on X on Tuesday, September 12. In it, he plays the police chief from the series, Chief Wiggum. In it, he simulates a call from a Springfield resident telling him that residents are eating dogs and cats. He ends up asking, in a pirouette: “And are they good?”

Several excerpts from The Simpsons were parodied the day after the debate, on September 11.

MonoNeon, an American musician from Memphis, Tennessee, also had fun taking passages from the Trump-Harris debate and mixing them with bass and funk sounds.

Since this false information had already been relayed by Elon Musk on September 9 on X, a TikTok account used artificial intelligence to create a “deepfake” of Donald Trump and Elon Musk dancing to Trump’s statement transformed into a musical gimmick.

It is also this remix that has been the most shared and used in choreography on TikTok, notably by the American Olympic champion Gabrielle Thomas.

The Facebook post that allegedly prompted the accusations was made by a resident, believed to be from Springfield, Ohio. He quoted a friend of his neighbor’s daughter who herself spoke of her own alleged Haitian neighbors trying to eat her cat.