Fact Check: Is White House Foliage Proof Biden Faked a Photo?

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Viral social media posts claim that President Joe Biden shared a fake photo of himself boarding Marine One on his way to a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Brussels. The supposed proof for this claim is that the trees seen behind him are green even though most trees in Washington, D.C., haven’t yet grown their spring foliage. 

https://twitter.com/NewsPolitics/status/1506665305451417601

Biden left for Europe on Wednesday, and before he boarded Marine One he took questions from the press. The greenery can be seen in video of Biden talking with the press along with other images taken before Biden left as well. Green leaves can be seen covering the trees in press interactions from the beginning of this month as well. 

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    Ben Connelly

    What a weird claim to make

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    Kevin M. James

    Breaking news...Twitter still makes everybody stupider and crazier every single day...film at 11.

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    Victor Clairmont

    Thank you for the fact check—-

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  4. Mike

    I am starting to have a 72 hour heuristic with any of the political "gotcha" moments.

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  5. Mary Stine

    Thanks Alec! Magnolia trees are much hardier than folks know. Last year during the Texas deep freeze other species in Houston and the Gulf Coast suffered terribly. Magnolias were like: "This all ya got??" and stayed green with all their leaves still on. Ha!

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    Frank Lee

    Thanks for this.

    There have been plenty of staged Biden and Harris shows though (for example, the Oval Office on a video stage while Joe gets his COVID shot... and that weird, weird episode of Harris's birthday at the White House)... so I personally cannot get too excited about mistakes made in assessing the same. But it really good to have responsibly journalists clearing it up.

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    1. Matt

      I think the problem is that we have people who legitimately are so desperate for anything to be outraged over that they actually care about Harris' birthday party or where Biden got his Covid shot. With all the issues we have in our country and our world and with our elected leaders, how does anyone have the mental bandwidth for these sorts of things?

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        Frank Lee

        Because it is evidence of the lack of truth, lack of authenticity, plastic puppet actors in charge playing a role for the camera but lacking leadership substance. If you cannot see that you are not awake yet.

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          rlritt

          I thought it was only the Left that demanded wokeness. I guess the Right demands wokeness, too. See, it's true what people say. They are both alike and bat sht crazy.

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        rlritt

        I agree..

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      rlritt

      My school pictures had fake scenery behind me. This is not an unusual idea.

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        DougCLE

        Ugh. The “bookshelf”. The “chalkboard”. The “teacher’s desk with apple”. Or my favorite, the “ranch”, where you leaned on a split rail fence.

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          rlritt

          Yes, ugly. But hardly a sign of sinister or dishonest intensions.

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