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Trump Fans Share Bogus Snap Of Him Saving Cats From HarveyThe president grabs two felines from floodwater in the clearly fake picture.
Dont believe that viral photograph that appears to show President Donald Trump rescuing cats in Texas after Hurricane Harvey.
Its bogus.
The image of Trump appearing to hold two ginger felines in his arms while wading waist deep through floodwater began circulating among his supporters in the wake of the devastating storm.
One pro-Trump Facebook page, called All about President Trump, posted the snap with the caption, Things the media forgets!
That post alone has now been shared more than 16,000 times.
But as the myth-debunking Snopes.com has proved, the image is totally fake.
Des Moines Register photographer Harry Baumert actually took the original photograph of a man named Brandon Smith who was saving his two cats from flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in June 2008, per the website.
Someone else has now simply edited Trumps head and his red Make America great again cap into the snap. Baumerts initial photograph no longer appears to be available online, but photographer David Greedy captured a similar scene at the same time.
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)to retrieve a kid's kite.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)Siwsan
(26,262 posts)There, I've thrown myself on that canard.
But seriously - he hasn't been that thin in decades, and as a germaphobe, he wouldn't even get close to that water, let alone pick up and save two sweet little moggies.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)And THOSE pussies have claws!
marybourg
(12,631 posts)and walks through floodwaters?
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)marble falls
(57,083 posts)Nobody talking about it is what makes it true.
If Trump had ever in his life saved a cat it'd be yuge, Sarah Huckleberry Sanders would have been bringing it up all the time. Hell its all the Orange Shitgibbon can do to keep from evicting Pence's 18 year old cat from the VP's residence.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)You know, the one Trump called "nasty" while he was spending the weekend at one of his resorts.
wryter2000
(46,045 posts)brooklynite
(94,571 posts)...like Kim il Song did?
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)he'd be grabbing.
gibraltar72
(7,504 posts)is in no way rescuing cats.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,172 posts)a sloppy edit overall.
Takket
(21,568 posts)tavernier
(12,388 posts)Beats the price of chuck.
0rganism
(23,954 posts)eta - can't believe i'm the first person with enough bad taste to mention this...
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And he'd never step into floodwaters filled with untreated sewage.