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In April 2018, several Facebook accounts began sharing memes alleging that an ad placed in a newspaper by the Ku Klux Klan had praised President Donald Trump's policies: The image included with this text was a genuine photograph of a flyer produced and distributed by the American Christian Nights, a Mississippi-based chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. It was not, however, a newspaper ad, nor was it from 2018. The pictured ad began with the word Trump in large bold letters followed by a series of bullet points praising the president's efforts to stop illegal immigration and the influx of muslems [sic]. The flyers were placed in plastic bags (not a newspaper) that were filled with white rice (a white supremacist symbol commonly included with KKK recruitment flyers) and left outside the homes of residents in a Mobile, Alabama neighborhood. A 19 June 2017 report from AL.com described the incident and included a photograph of the flyer which was later reproduced in the memes: We reached out to the Mobile Police Department to confirm the details of these reports and to see if any follow-up investigation had been undertaken. A summary of the case provided to us by the department confirmed the incident but suggested the investigation had concluded that no crime had been committed:
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