--- ---  # J.K. Rowling Apologizes for Falsely Suggesting President Trump Dissed a Disabled Boy by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Aug 1, 2017 2:47 AM UTC  J.K. Rowling at the 70th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) at Royal Albert Hall, London, Feb. 12, 2017. J.K. Rowling at the 70th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) at Royal Albert Hall, London, Feb. 12, 2017.Samir Hussein—WireImage/Getty Images by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Aug 1, 2017 2:47 AM UTC J.K. Rowling, author of the _Harry Potter_ series, apologized Monday for incorrectly suggesting on Twitter that President Donald Trump had snubbed a disabled child during a press conference on healthcare in late July. Rowling’s apology [came](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40785321) hours after PolitiFact [rated](http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jul/31/jk-rowling/jk-rowling-falsely-accuses-trump-not-shaking-disab/) her original tweets — which have all since been deleted — as “Pants on Fire,” concluding that her comments were founded on an edited clip from which Trump’s greeting to 3-year-old Monty Weer was cut. Weer is confined to a wheelchair because of a spinal birth defect. “Multiple sources have informed me that that was not a full or accurate representation of their interaction,” Rowling tweeted. “I very clearly projected my own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored onto the images I saw and if that caused any distress to that boy or his family, I apologise unreservedly,” she continued. > [](https://twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/892128355117563906) > [](https://twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/892128824854532102) > [](https://twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/892129163460694018) > [](https://twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/892129536363692032) The writer, a regular Twitter critic of Trump and his policies, first reacted last Friday to the edited video from a July 24 press conference, according to PolitiFact, during which Trump delivered a speech on health care. “Trump [imitated a disabled reporter](http://time.com/4127857/donald-trump-disability/). Now he pretends not to see a child in a wheelchair, as though frightened he might catch his condition,” Rowling originally tweeted based on the spliced footage. (While she has since deleted them, an [archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170731141929/https:/twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/890997400290111489) of the tweets still exists.) White House video of the same press conference, however, showed Trump [appearing to](https://youtu.be/g0u34c9orMc?t=2m17s) bow down and greet Weer as he entered the venue, PolitiFact said. Marjorie Kelly Weer, Monty’s mother, also appeared to have called out Rowling’s wrong interpretation of events on Facebook, the BBC [reports](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40785321). “If someone can please get a message to J.K. Rowling: Trump didn’t snub my son & Monty wasn’t even trying to shake his hand,” she wrote, adding that Monty wasn’t into hand shaking anyway. J.K. 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