Director Rich Moore Makes Fun of False Statements by Trump’s Press Secretary With ‘Zootopia’ Joke

Rich Moore, who co-directed Disney’s Golden Globe-winning Zootopia with Byron Howard, has entered the political fray with a Zootopia-related joke that mocks misleading statements made on Saturday by Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer.

Moore’s tweet was made in the style of Spicer’s far-out claim to the press corps that, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.” After Spicer made the demonstrably false statement, a hashtag appeared on Twitter called #SpicerFacts in which people wrote obviously untrue facts in Spicer’s style.

Although Moore did not use the hashtag for his post, he included a photo of Spicer and wrote it in the style of the meme, using an emphatic “period” as Spicer did. In his tweet, Moore claims that things that actually happened in Zootopia never happened at all:

There was no lab and Mayor Bellwether did not try to kill Officer Hopps by shooting Nick with what she thought was savage serum. Period. pic.twitter.com/V73VeEJGR1

— Rich Moore (@_rich_moore) January 22, 2017

Moore also posted a second Spicer fact that will appeal to fans of The Three Stooges:

Curly Joe DeRita was the funniest of all the Three Stooges. Period. pic.twitter.com/1xgjl2Fxis

— Rich Moore (@_rich_moore) January 22, 2017