Social media mocks Conway for citing nonexistent ‘Bowling Green massacre’

Social media lit up with jokes Thursday night after White House adviser Kellyanne Conway cited a nonexistent “Bowling Green massacre” to defend President Trump’s immigration order. 

{mosads}In an interview with MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Thursday, Conway said that the Obama administration had imposed a six-month ban on refugees from Iraq following a “Bowling Green massacre,” though no such massacre occurred. 

She later tweeted to say that she meant to say “Bowling Green terrorists,” referring to two men from Iraq who were living in Bowling Green, Ky., and indicted for attempting to send weapons to al Qaeda in Iraq.

On @hardball @NBCNews @MSNBC I meant to say “Bowling Green terrorists” as reported here:
https://t.co/nB5SwIEoYI

— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) February 3, 2017

But Twitter users quickly mocked Conway’s original claim, sending the hashtag #BowlingGreenMassacre to the top of the trending topics list. Here is a sampling of some of the tweets about it: 

Saddened and sickened by Frederick Douglass’ silence surrounding the Bowling Green Massacre.

— Natasha Rothwell (@natasharothwell) February 3, 2017

Out of curiosity, I googled “Bowling Green massacre” and was directed to a now-closed haunted house. https://t.co/PqvphJZpbH

— Zach Lowe (@zlowe) February 3, 2017

Do you remember the Bowling Green Massacre? pic.twitter.com/32YwmTMcPf

— Demetria Obilor (@DemetriaObilor) February 3, 2017

shame on Kellyanne Conway for attempting to politicize the Bowling Green massacre, in which I was killed

— PAPPADEMAS (@PAPPADEMAS) February 3, 2017

One still shudders to think how bad the Bowling Green massacre would’ve been if not for the heroic intervention of Fred Douglass.

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) February 3, 2017

I was the @bgdailynews‘ city editor when the Bowling Green Massacre didn’t happen.

— Daniel Pike (@DPikeBGDN) February 3, 2017

The Bowling Green Massacre was a very serious massacre that did an amazing job of massacring and is getting recognized more and more

— ☕netw3rk (@netw3rk) February 3, 2017

Please donate anything you can spare to Nigerian Prince Emmanuel’s fund for the victims of the Bowling Green Massacre.

— Eli Matt Pettersen (@mecdemonde) February 3, 2017

Finding these Bowling Green Massacre jokes to be a little too soon. Out of respect, we should wait until it takes place.

— Justin Shanes (@justinshanes) February 3, 2017

Chelsea Clinton also weighed in to mock Conway’s claim. Clinton’s tweet also referred to news that a French soldier shot a knife-wielding man outside the Louvre in Paris, saying she was “grateful” no one was seriously injured and making a plea not to “make up attacks.”

Very grateful no one seriously hurt in the Louvre attack …or the (completely fake) Bowling Green Massacre. Please don’t make up attacks.

— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) February 3, 2017