Marco Rubio tweets a tribute to John Lewis using the photo of a different black congressman

[RandySF]

Like many of his colleagues, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted a tribute to John Lewis on Saturday and included a photo of himself with the civil rights icon who died Friday. He even made the image his Twitter profile picture.

There was just one problem. The photo was of Rubio and the late congressman Elijah E. Cummings, who died in December.

“It was an honor to know & be blessed with the opportunity to serve in Congress with John Lewis a genuine & historic American hero,” Rubio tweeted with the photo of himself and Cummings.

John Lewis, front-line civil rights leader and eminence of Capitol Hill, dies at 80
The response on Twitter was a mix of anger and ridicule, with many users posting photos of various white Republican congressmen and labeling them Rubio. Others chided Rubio for the offensive act of mixing up two people of color, especially given that he had interacted with both of them in person.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/marco-rubio-tweets-a-tribute-to-john-lewis-using-the-photo-of-a-different-black-congressman/2020/07/18/381d9f8a-c92f-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html

[rockfordfile]

1. Rubio is still a un-American idiot

[helpisontheway]

2. Aw shit. Why am I not surprised? 🤦🏽‍♀️Nt

[Lochloosa]

3. That's my senator!

Fucking idiot.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Sometimes, it is the thoughtlessness that counts.

[Nevilledog]

8. +1

[electric_blue68]

11. Bwaaahahahhaaaaaaa! (ijiot Marco) nt

[doc03]

5. They all look the same to Marco. nt

[LakeArenal]

6. They are all stoopid and research nothing.

[spinbaby]

7. I'm pretty sure this is a photo of Marco Rubio

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Says a lot.

A show, nothing more.

[House of Roberts]

10. Elijah Cummings died October 17, 2019.

[struggle4progress]

12. "Somewhere around here, I have a photo of my good friend Marco Rubio bringing me a taco bowl

at the restaurant where he works! I always give him an extra-special thank you in his own language by saying, Hay Macarena!"

[MineralMan]

13. Odds are that Rubio did not select the picture.

Most likely, he delegated the tweet to some aide of his, He might have written the tweet, but told the aide to find a photo to add to it. Then, he walked away from the entire process, and we see what happened.

Marco Rubio probably could not actually post anything on Twitter, much less add a photo to a Tweet. Such things are beneath him, so he delegates the job to someone who is, you know, "Internet-savvy."

Such embarrassing things are SOP for Republicans in Congress.