Doctored image of Trump spreads online amid health concerns
Claim:
An image shared on social media in September 2025 showed US President Donald Trump with a fluffy face.
Rating:
Rating: Fake
At the beginning of September 2025, image US President Donald Trump on social media with an authentic face of a fluffy face, claiming that he has contributed to unfounded rumors about his health in recent weeks.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Press Office partner (archived) The alleged image of Trump in an X post without an subtitle on September 3:
The image wandered somewhere else Open X– Threads And Facebookwith some people speculation about the health of the President. For example, an x user partner The image on September 1 wrote: “Who else thinks that Donald Trump is at least serious? “
A Snopes reader wrote us to verify the originality of the image.
However, the image search and analysis of the image revealed that it was changed digitally. As a result, we considered this image as a fake.
Original Photograph (archivedFrom Trump Taken by Associated Press photographer in July 2022 (archived). According to the subtitles, Bedminster showed that he was playing in the Bedminster Invitational Liv Golf tournament in NJ.
The comparison of the modified image and the original photo side by side showed that Trump’s face expression, red “America again” Hat and the white -collar shirt carrying the “Trump New York” logo showed that it was the same in both images.
However, in the authentic photograph, Trump’s face looked much thinner, and there was less pronounced wrinkles than in the modified version. Trump’s face looked thinner in other authentic photographs taken on the same day.
Newsom’s office admitted that the image was organized in an expression sent to Snopes by e -mail.
“Of course, it’s funny. So funny. We’ve published it to laugh at the old president of the United States,” Newsom’s Office Izzy Gordon, “of course it was very funny.” He said.
Newsom’s office has recently accelerated. Efforts to make fun of Trump on social mediause nipples And All-Sapital Leter Posts To imitate Trump’s true social style.
For example, Newsom’s Press Office shared the following post (archivedOn September 2:
The modified image of Trump was not new – his He has been tours on social media for more than three years. We found multiple versions sent on x (archived) And Reddit (archived) In 2022. In the shared version of Reddit, the text in Trump’s hat was also organized to read “treacherous”.
In August and September 2025, there was no evidence to support rumors, as some publications that shared the modified image that Trump’s health failed. Some people on social media claimed that Trump had died before the weekend on the weekend, the workers’ festival in the United States before the weekend, and others shared an unfounded rumor that it was only six to eight months to live.
White House in July 2025 Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s chronic venous insufficiency“A benign and widespread situation, especially in individuals over 70 years of age.”
Trump’s false photos and videos often circulate on social media. For example, Snopes Rejected a fake video He claims that the president shows that he said, “Trans people are not there.” We too Investigated an image claiming that Trump fell In August 2025.
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