A South American President appears to have fallen for the oldest trick in the book after unwittingly posing for a photo next to a child wearing an ‘I’m With Stupid’ T-shirt.<\/p>\n
Ecuador’s leader Rafael Correa was pictured with his arm around the boy – seemingly oblivious to the message on the shirt and the large arrow that was pointing in his direction.<\/p>\n
The casually-dressed 52-year-old is said to be able to speak fluent English – but seemingly failed to pick up the meaning of the T-shirt.<\/p>\n
The picture was shared thousands of times on social media networks in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n It also prompted thousands of comments including the suggestion that the child was a CIA agent brought in to damage the president’s reputation.<\/p>\n However, his supporters quickly rallied behind him and used the hashtag #WeAreWithYouMashi to fight back.<\/p>\n According to the BBC, the boy’s mother said that her son had not known the meaning of the T-shirt himself and she is quoted as saying: ‘We don’t want to shame the president’.<\/p>\n Correa, who was first elected in 2006, is popular among Ecuadorians for his government’s social spending but has also faced criticism for intolerance of dissent.<\/p>\n Source: Daily Mail<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A South American President appears to have fallen for the oldest trick in the book after unwittingly posing for a photo next to a child wearing an ‘I’m With Stupid’ T-shirt. Ecuador’s leader Rafael Correa was pictured with his arm around the boy – seemingly oblivious to the message on the shirt and the large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":107221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-107217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}