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Donald Trump's well-documented hatred for CNN fed a rumor in October 2017 that, upon checking at his Washington, D.C. hotel, guests were being asked to sign a petition against showing the news network on TVs in federal buildings. This rumor appears to have originated from a single Facebook post that has either been deleted or made private. On 10 October 2017, Twitter user @ackrantz11 posted a screenshot purportedly showing the original post and claimed that a friend had received the flyer when she checked in to the Trump Hotel: We identified and interviewed the woman pictured in this Facebook post. She told us that she was never actually a guest at the Trump Hotel in Washington D.C. She did, however, use Facebook's check in feature when she stopped in for a few drinks at the lobby bar. While she was there, an anonymous person handed her the flyer. She said: The original Facebook post did not claim that hotel staff had handed out the flyer or that every guest received it at check-in. Yet, as the image spread on social media, the claim was exaggerated. The original Facebook poster also told us that she did not know Twitter user @ackrantz11, whose tweet pushing this rumor garnered more than 10,000 retweets: When we asked a spokesperson for the hotel whether guests were receiving the fliers at check-in, we were told: This flyer does detail a real petition on WhiteHouse.gov (it has just over 50 signatures as of this writing). Anyone can create a WhiteHouse.gov petition. Finally, if the petition was indeed being handed to every guest at the hotel (or even every customer at the lobby bar), it would likely have been posted multiple times. Yet we have only come across a single image of the document, indicating that this was likely an isolated incident.
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