Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Trump With No Damage To His Ear Immediately After Butler Assassination Attempt -- It's AI

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Incident details

Incident ID: inc_2026_04_21_b6b3d5e8
Date source: llm_extracted_from_article_text
Country: United States
Platform: Social Media
Incident type: Deceptive Social Media Filter
Verification level: reported_but_unverified

Harm types

Misinformation Political Impersonation

Topics

Synthetic Image Image Manipulation

Summary

A Facebook post by the account @T.bigpicture shared an AI-generated image depicting Donald Trump without visible damage to his ear following the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. The post claimed the White House had rejected allegations that the event was staged, using the manipulated image to support this assertion. Fact-checkers identified the image as AI-generated, noting that legitimate news reports and photos from Getty Images from the same day showed Trump with blood on his ear and face. Additionally, the car door in the image was bent in an impossible way, and an AI detection tool rated the image as 100% likely to be AI-generated.

Sources

Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Trump With No Damage To His Ear Immediately After Butler Assassination Attempt -- It's AI

yahoo.com · 2026-04-21 · Primary