Images of former U.S. President Donald Trump smiling as security personnel surround him during the assassination attempt Saturday are digitally altered.
Another person shared the altered image of Trump on X and wrote, “Trump is *smiling* AFTER surviving an assassination attempt! None of this passes the smell test.”
Both images were altered.
Reuters photographs taken during the assassination attempt also do not show Trump or security personnel smiling in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.
VERDICT
Altered. Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his security personnel surrounding him did not smile in the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt on July 13. Images of them smiling have been digitally altered.
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