Zimbabwe government says President Robert Mugabe didn't trip, even though there's a picture

Even though a picture of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe tripping went viral and became a Twitter meme, his government claims that the 90-year-old didn’t really trip.

A photo of Mugabe tripping at the Harare airport on Wednesday went viral around the world, leading to the Twitter hashtag #MugabeFalls. Creative people came up with memes, putting Mugabe in odd places, from ice skating rinks to Kim Kardashian’s infamous Paper Magazine cover.

However, Information Minister Jonathan Moyo told a local newspaper that there was no actual evidence that Mugabe really fell, notes The Associated Press. Of course, witnesses at the airport insist that he really did trip after walking away from a raised lectern.

The AP reports that press photographers at the scene were told to delete images and video, but obviously, one was still printed.

“What happened is that the president tripped over a hump on the carpet on one of the steps of the dais as he was stepping down from the platform but he remarkably managed to break the fall on his own,” Moyo told a state-run newspaper on Thursday. "I repeat that the president managed to break the fall."

Moyo said that even Jesus would have fallen in that situation. In fact, to show that leaders from around the world - including the late U.S. President Gerald Ford and Spain’s Queen Sofia - all tripped in the past, the newspaper published a collage of their falls.

Mugabe turns 91 on Feb. 21 and has been president of Zimbabwe since 1987.


image via Twitter from SouthAfrica.TO

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