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Best of the Babylon Bee: ‘I am your father,’ Trump reveals to horrified Mark Hamill

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What to know about Best of the Babylon Bee: ‘I am your father,’ Trump reveals to horrified Mark Hamill

Best of the Babylon Bee: ‘I am your father,’ Trump reveals to horrified Mark Hamill Every week, The Post will bring you our picks of the best one-liners and stories from satirical site the Babylon Bee to take the edge off Hump Day.

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Best of the Babylon Bee: ‘I am your father,’ Trump reveals to horrified Mark Hamill Every week, The Post will bring you our picks of the best one-liners and stories from satirical site the Babylon Bee to take the edge off Hump Day.

Why it matters

NO!” the actor then shouted as members of the media looked on.

Common ground

The clearest point to anchor on is this: Platner had covered up his misunderstood tattoo with a less offensive swastika symbol, popular amongst Hindus to symbolize good fortune.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 2 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Platner had covered up his misunderstood tattoo with a less offensive swastika symbol, popular amongst Hindus to symbolize good fortune”
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While the evidence confirms that the swastika is a symbol of good fortune in Hinduism, there is no evidence in the provided search results confirming that Graham Platner specifically covered up a tattoo with a swastika for this reason. The NYT opinion piece mentions a skull tattoo and Nazi symbols, but does not corroborate the specific action of replacing a tattoo with a Hindu swastika.
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web search NEUTRAL — The swastika is a symbol with many styles and meanings and has been used in many cultures and religions around the world for millennia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
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web search NEUTRAL — The word swastika means “good fortune” or “being happy” in Sanskrit, and the symbol represents good luck. (A clockwise variation of the swastika with a 45-degree rotation later became associated with …
https://www.history.com/articles/hinduism
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web search NEUTRAL — I have a confession: I would not have recognized the skull that the Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner had tattooed on his chest as a Nazi symbol. I knew that a skull and crossbones form…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/opinion/graham-platner-na…
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Claim 2: “Pfizer had announced a new hantavirus vaccine that would be ready in just six months.”
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The provided evidence does not contain any mention of Pfizer announcing a hantavirus vaccine that would be ready in six months. One source mentions a patent filed in 2021 and another mentions general efforts to develop a vaccine, but neither confirms the specific timeline or announcement attributed to Pfizer in the claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — Pfizer releases its list of vaccine side effects.Pfizer wanted you to wait till 2085 to know that the vaccine you took has 9 PAGES of side effects. Start with page 30.
https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/03/fdas-list-of-1290-known…
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web search NEUTRAL — The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship brings a new focus to efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent the virus.The company is winding down its COVID vaccine production entirely, leaving…
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bp-scientists-aw…
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web search NEUTRAL — A patent for an mRNA vaccine against hantavirus WAS filed in the U.S in 2021 and vaccine development for this fake virus was started in…2024. It’s ALL FAKE just like…COVID!!!
https://greeknewsondemand.com/2026/05/07/hantavirus-is-fake-…
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