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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsC-SPAN says the caller using the name John Barron who sounded like Trump was NOT Trump
In case you thought that John Barron call was actually real
— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) 2026-02-22T23:32:22.740Z
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C-SPAN says the caller using the name John Barron who sounded like Trump was NOT Trump (Original Post)
highplainsdem
14 hrs ago
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Ocelot II
(129,962 posts)1. Didn't think so but it was a pretty decent impersonation.
BigmanPigman
(54,914 posts)2. Sure sounded like him to me.
I listened several times and the labored breathing, slurred words, choice of word, style of speech, etc.
Fiendish Thingy
(22,642 posts)3. To paraphrase Mark Twain:
You can fool plenty of people most of the time.
Figarosmom
(11,032 posts)4. Yeah right
Like he couldn't make a phone call inthe middle of a meeting using someone else's phone. No one is going to say anything to him if he did.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,929 posts)5. It was obviously a phoney phone call.
The impersonation was pretty good.
Blue Owl
(58,758 posts)6. It was Barron Von Pedophile