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On 6 December 2017, President Donald Trump announced a shift in foreign policy under which the U.S. would officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and he set in motion a plan to move the American Embassy to that city from Tel Aviv. Although President Trump's Jerusalem announcement had broad support across the U.S., it also drew criticism and protests from many Americans, from U.S. allies, and from the Arab world: Later on the day of the contentious announcement, the web site The Beaverton spoofed the controversy it engendered with an article positing that Palestinians had similarly opted to recognize the U.S. state of Texas as still being a part of Mexico: Although the article was nothing more than a bit of fabricated humor, many readers who encountered the spoof through social media postings mistook it for a genuine news report, not knowing that The Beaverton is a satirical web site, as stated in their disclaimer:
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