On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced tariffs of extreme heights on goods from nearly every country worldwide, sending global markets plummeting. The Dow plummeted over 1,600 points on Thursday, and a tweet that seemed to be from Trump went viral, critiquing the president’s baffling actions that threaten to sabotage the U.S. economy. However, we regret to inform you that the tweet circulating everywhere is entirely fabricated.

A screenshot of the supposed Trump tweet reads, “If the Dow drops 1000 points in two days, the President should be impeached immediately!” The tweet appears to have a date of Nov. 6, 2012, when Barack Obama was president. However, there is no evidence to suggest that this tweet is authentic.

Snopes initially debunked it back in 2018, when this fake screenshot of the Trump tweet appears to have been created. At the time, around Oct. 11, 2018, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had just lost 1,378 points. Trump was famously critical of President Obama, including falsely claiming that he wasn’t born in the U.S. and was therefore disqualified from being president.

Trump was president in 2018, so an ironic tweet surfacing from 2012 claiming that he should be impeached seemed suitably humorous, given his penchant for constant hypocrisy. However, this one was too good to be true.

Trump has a history of tweeting outrageous things, although he now uses Truth Social as his primary platform for sharing absurd thoughts. Just this morning, Trump tweeted a bizarre all-caps message that seemed to be about his tariffs.

“THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump wrote around 8:33 a.m. ET, about an hour before U.S. markets opened.

Trump appeared to be using an analogy that his tariff plan was a surgical procedure that would be painful initially but yield good results. The president attempted to use the same analogy on Thursday afternoon as he left for the LIV golf tournament at his Doral resort in Miami, Florida.

Economists almost unanimously agree that Trump’s tariff plan is flawed. Trump is imposing tariffs of 10-50% on all goods entering the U.S., which will inevitably raise prices.

The idea, according to Trump, is that high tariffs will force countries to create manufacturing jobs in the U.S., thus generating employment. However, in a globalized economy, it’s not desirable for a single country to be entirely self-sufficient and produce everything it needs. Trump seems unlikely to back down from the tariffs, which are set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Saturday, April 5.

The U.S. will likely become much poorer if Trump gets his way. Nevertheless, it’s crucial to focus on the actual statements coming from our president’s mouth to have a proper understanding of the world. Trump didn’t say that if the Dow drops 1000 points, the president should be impeached immediately. However, that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea.