Twitter Troll Gets Republicans To Salute Lee Harvey Oswald For His Service

Intercept reporter and Twitter prankster extraordinaire Ken Klippenstein has pulled off his latest troll with terrific results, getting prominent Republican congressmen and TCOTs, including Matt Gaetz and Dinesh D'Souza, to salute Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's assassin, on Twitter.

Happy Memorial Day! pic.twitter.com/Ol7fOAhpZz

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) May 31, 2021

my god, it’s a trifecta pic.twitter.com/yYYJ2psK11

— beth (@bethbourdon) May 31, 2021

Klippenstein has been pulling off the ruse annually for several years and has gotten Steve King and Richard Grennell in the past. However, this is by far his most successful troll, as Lee Harvey Oswald trended on Twitter yesterday.

This was aided in part by conservative provocateur Candace Owens, who was not a mark of the troll but chimed in with disgust that Klippenstein would photoshop Oswald into a marine uniform. The issue is that Klippenstein did no such thing: Lee Harvey Oswald served as a marine from 1956-1959.

Apparently @RealCandaceO thinks that Lee Harvey Oswald's military photo is photoshopped lol pic.twitter.com/gDKCUPi3XK

— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) June 1, 2021

This, in turn, caused Klippsentein to heighten the prank, claiming Owens got him fired from his job (she didn't; Klippenstein still has his job). Friends of his joined in, claiming Klippenstein was "Fired for Truth."

I think I made Candace Owens short circuit lmao pic.twitter.com/tHDCtcZ051

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 1, 2021

Tell Candace Owens I hope she’s happy I’ve been let go from my job

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 1, 2021

i stand adjacent to ken klippenstein who was fired by candace owens in a vile act of censorship

— art criminal (@artboypolitico) June 1, 2021

And so passed yet another day on Twitter in which conservatives got trolled very publically and owned online. See you next year, Ken.