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An image that purportedly shows President Trump wading through floodwater while holding two cats was widely circulated on social media after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in late August 2017: This is not a genuine photograph of President Trump. The original photograph, which showed a man named Brandon Smith rescuing his two cats from floodwaters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in June 2008, was taken by photographer Harry Baumert of the Des Moines Register. Although the original article containing the image is no longer online, the Iowa newspaper reprinted the photograph in a 2009 article that provided an update on Smith and his cats: To create the doctored photograph, someone placed Trump's headonto Smith's shoulders. Here's a side-by-side comparison of the fake image (left) and the original photograph (right): Photographer David Greedy also captured several photographs of Smith rescuing his cats from the flood waters in June 2008. One of them, available via Getty Images, was accompanied by the following caption: This isn't the first fake rescue photograph of President Trump. He was also digitally manipulated into an image of a rescue boat in choppy waters. In the days following Hurricane Harvey, many other fake or miscaptioned photographs also appeared online.
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