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One longstanding rule to avoid ridicule on the internet is to not be photographed holding a sign or sheet of paper with a simple background. As former First Lady Michelle Obama, Bill Gates and actor Harrison Ford have all learned, these images can be easily manipulated. President Donald Trump was subjected to similar treatment after he was photographed holding an executive order he had signed in January 2017. Internet users altered this image to make it appear as if the president had signed a number of ridiculous (and fake) executive orders, including one that involved his daughter Ivanka and chametz, or leavened foods that are forbidden during Passover: This is not a real executive order signed by President Trump. The original photograph was taken on 23 January 2017 by Reuters photographer Kevin Lamarque, and it showed President Trump holding a Presidential Memorandum concerning the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy: The original image was used in the creation of an executive order sign generator which led to several images of the President holding fake executive orders: We can't show the original Reuters image due to copyright, but the image can be viewed here. You can also see another, similar photograph from Getty Images that shows President Trump holding the same real Mexico City Policy executive order at a slightly different angle. At the beginning of 2018, another edited moment appeared following this tweet from President Trump: A day later, a video apparently mocking the tweet was uploaded by Occupy Democrats:
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