No, Liz Cheney didn’t say Trump has a ‘Daffy Duck disease’

Former President Donald Trump recently said former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney should see how it feels to face guns "trained on her face," but a purported response from the Wyoming Republican isn’t authentic. 

"Donald Trump is now literally threatening to have me killed. If you don’t want to live in a bananna republic run by a senile man with some sort of Daffy Duck disease, vote for Kamala," reads a quote attributed to Cheney in a Nov. 1 Threads post that misspelled "banana." (Daffy Duck, one of Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes," started out as a "hyperactive, at times silly, character whose madcap capers were fueled by an unpredictable personality" but became "desperately self-glorifying and consumed by jealousy," according to Britannica.) 

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That quote originated as a joke. It appeared in what looks like a screenshot of a parody Liz Cheney X account. The handle is @Liz_Choney — not to be confused with Cheney’s actual X handle, @Liz_Cheney — and the image says "parody" at the bottom. 

An X account shared the image Nov. 1. 

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"Most of the images we share are parodies," the account’s bio said. 

Cheney, who has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, did respond on X to the comments by Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. 

"This is how dictators destroy free nations," she said in a Nov. 1 post. "They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant."

We rate claims the quote in the Threads post is an authentic Cheney quote False.